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MORPHY'S 
GAMES    OF    CHESS, 


PROBLEM  TOURNAMENT. 


BY 

THOS.   FRERE. 


NEW  YORK: 

T,  W.  STRONG,   9  8   NASSAU-STREET. 

1869. 


Entered  according  to  Act  of  Congress,  in  the  year  Eighteen  Hundred 
and  Fifty-eight, 

BY  THOMAS  FRfiRE, 

In  the  Clerk's  Office  of  the  District  Court  of  the  United  States  for  the 

Southern  District  of  New  York. 


PREFACE. 


No  word  of  apology  is  necessary  for  the  publication  of  Mor- 
phy's  Games.  It  is  simply  a  "  supply"  for  a  universal  "  demand." 
For  the  following  brief  sketch  of  Mr.  Morphy's  birth,  parentage, 
and  career,  we  are  indebted  to  the  Chess  MontMy. 

"Paul  Morphy  was  born  in  the  city  of  New  Orleans,  on  the 
22d  of  June,  1S37.  His  grandfather  was  a  native  of  Spain,  the 
land  of  Kuy  Lopez  and  Xerone ;  but,  comiug  to  this  country,  he 
resided  for  some  years  at  Charleston,  South  Carolina,  where  Mr. 
Morphy's  father  was  born.  On  the  maternal  side,  Mr.  Morphy's 
relatives  are  of  a  family  originally  French,  but  long  settled  in 
Louisiana.  Paul  was  the  second  son  of  his  parents.  His  earlier 
years  were  passed  at  school  at  the  Jefferson  Academy  in  the  place 
of  his  birth.  Leaving  his  seminary,  he  became,  December,  1850, 
a  student  of  St.  Joseph's  College  at  Spring-hill,  near  Mobile,  Ala. 
He  graduated  from  this  institution  in  high  standing  in  October, 
1854,  but  remained  at  Spring-hill  another  year  as  a  resident 
graduate.  Since  that  time  Mr.  Morphy  has  devoted  himself  to 
the  study  of  the  law,  with  the  intention  of  entering  at  no  distant 
day  the  bar  of  Louisiana. 

"  Paul's  father  was  fond  of  the  game  of  chess,  and  was  accus- 
tomed to  play  occasionally  with  his  brother,  Mr.  Ernest  Morphy, 
and  his  brother-in-law,  Mr.  Le  Carpentier.  The  boy  Paul  was 
wont  to  watch  these  encounters  with  so  much  apparent  interest 
that  his  father  in  1847,  when  Paul  was  ten  years  of  age,  explained 
to  him  the  powers  of  the  pieces  and  the  laws  of  the  game.  In 
less  than  two  years  he  was  contending  successfully  on  even  terms 
with  the  foremost  amateurs  of  the  Crescent  City.  One  peculi- 
arity of  Paul's  play  during  the  infantile  stage  of  his  chess  life, 
while  his  father  and  his  brother  were  his  chief  adversaries,  used 
to  create  considerable  merriment  among  the  circle  of  chess  lovers 
with  whom  he  was  brought  into  contact.     His  Pawns  seemed  to 


4  PREFACE. 

him  a  hindrance,  and  his  first  work,  upon  commencing  a  game, 

was  to  exchange  or  sacrifice  them  all,  giving  free  range  to  his 
pieces,  after  which,  with  his  unimpeded  Queen,  Eooks,  Knights, 
and  Bishops,  he  began  a  fierce  attack  upon  his  opponent's  forces, 
which  was  often  valorously  maintained  until  it  resulted  in  mate. 
During  the  years  1849  and  1850,  Paul  contested  over  Mty  parties 
with  Mr.  Eugene  Eousseau,  winning  fully  nine-tenths.  Mr. 
Eousseau  is  well  known  from  his  famous  match  with  Mr.  Stanley 
in  1845,  and  from  the  fact  that  he  played  in  Europe  more  than  one 
hundred  games  even  with  Kierseritzky,  of  which  the  great  Livoni- 
an  won  only  a  bare  majority.  Another  adversary  of  Paul,  during 
the  same  year,  was  his  uncle,  Mr.  Ernest  Morphy,  whose  strength 
was  nearly  equal  to  Eousseau's.  Beginning  with  the  year  1849, 
the  uncle  and  nephew  have  played  something  like  a  hundred 
games  ;  Paul  being  the  victor  in  almost  every  combat.  In  May, 
1850,  Lowenthal,  the  distinguished  Hungarian,  passed  through 
New  Orleans.  On  the  22d  and  25th  of  that  month  he  played 
with  Paul  (at  that  time  not  thirteen  years  of  age)  in  the  presence 
of  Mr.  Eousseau,  Mr.  E.  Morphy,  and  a  large  number  of  amateurs. 
The  first  game  was  drawn,  the  second  and  third  was  won  by  the 
invincible  young  Philidor.  With  Mr.  James  M'Connell  of  New 
Orleans,  Paul  Morphy  has  played  some  thirty  games,  winning 
all  but  one.  On  the  1st  of  March,  1856,  he  played  in  Mobile  six 
games  with  Judge  A.  B.  Meek,  and  was  successful  in  all  of  them. 
On  the  same  day  he  encountered  Dr.  Ayers,  a  leading  amateur 
of  Alabama,  in  two  games  with  the  same  result.  In  January, 
1857,  he  again  met  Judge  Meek  in  New  Orleans,  and  won  the 
four  games  then  played.  During  the  last  four  or  five  years  Mr. 
Morphy  has  played  but  little,  except  at  heavy  odds.  His  games 
at  the  odds  of  the  Eook  or  Knight  with  Mr.  C.  A.  Maurian,  jr.,  a 
promising  young  amateur  of  Louisiana,  are  among  the  very  best 
contests  of  their  kind  on  record." 

The  following  cleverly  written  article  from  The  Press,  a  London 
journal  of  infiuence,  gives  a  good  picture  of  the  excitement  cre- 
ated by  Mr.  Morphy's  advent  in  England,  and  of  the  impression 
which  his  style  of  play  has  made  upon  the  British  chess  com- 
munity. 

"  The  chess  world  (for  chess  world  there  is,  although  it  is 
seldom  brought  into  contact  with  any  other  of  the  fifty  worlds 
into  which  society  is  so  curiously  cross-divided)  has  received  an 
impulse  sufiicient  to  arouse  it  from  its  usual  meditative  tranquil- 
lity.    A  general  chess  conflagration  seems  to  be  kindling  just 


PREFACE.  5 

when  the  political  and  the  fashionable  world  begin  to  *  pale  their 
ineffectual  fires'  in  the  approaching  dawn  of  the  recess.  The 
matches  which  have  produced  this  startling  effect  are  not  of  the 
Lucifer  order,  but  will  burn  longer  and  more  steadily  than  the 
patent  night-lights  or  Palmer's  best  stearine.  To  convey  our 
views  in  a  more  familiar  mataphor,  Mr.  Morphy,  the  champion 
of  the  American  chess,  is  in  the  field,  and  prepared  to  joust  with 
all  comers.  And  putting  aside  a  match  with  Mr.  Lowenthal  (now 
pending),  and  another  with  Mr.  Staunton,  also  on  the  tapis — the 
event  of  neither  of  which  can  we  assume  to  prejudge — thus  far 
he  has  kept  his  ground  triumphantly.  Though  occasionally 
beaten,  he  has  scored  a  considerable  majority  of  games  against 
every  player  whom  he  has  encountered,  including  several  of  our 
first  English  celebrities.  And  this  with  a  '"  gallery"  of  strangers, 
and  at  the  age  of  twenty-one.  When  a  few  months  since  we 
read  of  the  appearance  of  an  American  phenomenon  (our  present 
visitor),  who  was  to  '  whip  all  creation'  in  the  chequered  field, 
we  confess  we  felt  .somewhat  skeptical.  The  language  of  the 
West  is  singularly  tinged  with  Oriental  hyperbole,  and  puffing 
under  the  auspices  of  Mr.  Barnum  has  attained  the  dignity  of  a 
science.  We  thought  of  the  Feejee  mermaid  and  woolly  horse — 
of  the  hunter  who  could  whip  his  weight  in  wild-cats,  and  of  the 
mare  whose  rapid  transit  past  successive  milestones  gave  the 
country  the  appearance  of  a  continuous  churchyard.  Even  the 
report  of  the  New  York  'Chess  Congress,'  where  the  young 
amateur  from  New  Orleans  won,  unless  our  memory  fails  us, 
eighty-one  games  out  of  eighty-four,  did  not  completely  dispel 
our  prejudices.  The  games  were  brilliant,  but  they  were  played 
chiefly  against  third-rates,  with  whom  it  might  be  safe  to  take 
liberties.  So  dashing  a  style  would  perhaps  prove  fatal  when 
tried  against  wary  veterans,  trained  in  defence  and  tenacious  of 
the  smallest  advantage  once  gained.  Such  were  our  previous  im- 
pressions and  those  of  many  abler  judges — impressions  not  desti- 
tute of  som-«  a  priori  probability.  But  we  were  mistaken — we 
confess  it  frankly  and  deliberately — utterly  and  absolutely  mis- 
taken. Mr.  Morphy  needs  no  aid  either  of  'yarn'  or  'whole 
cloth'  (we  adopt  the  latest  American  metaphors)  to  establish  his 
claims  as  an  extraordinary  genius  in  his  own  Hne.  This  is  no 
place  for  discussing  the  value  of  chess,  either  as  a  recreation  or 
as  a  test  of  intellectual  power.  Enough  to  say,  that  its  living  vota- 
ries are  legion,  including  many  men  (like  Messrs.  Staunton  and 
Buckle,  now  the  first  names  of  English  chess)  of  high  literary  or 


6  PREFACB. 

professional  distinction ;  and  that  it  is  historically  associated 
with  recollections  of  Charles  XII.,  Napoleon,  and  other 

'  Dead  but  scepter'd  monarchs,  who  still  rule 
Our  spirits  from  their  urns.' 

Our  present  purpose  is  to  claim  for  our  distinguished  visitor,  as 
a  gifted  and  accomplished  chess-player,  the  praise,  to  which  he 
is  entitled  in  that  character  even  from  the  non-chessplaying 
world. 

"  '  Not  to  put  too  fine  a  point  upon  it,'  as  Dickens  would  say, 
the  qualifications  requisite  for  excellence  in  chess  are  principally 
four:  1.  Inventive  power,  for  original  combinations;  2.  Power 
of  analysis,  seen  chiefly  in  working  out  the  possible  results  of  a 
given  position  ;  3.  Temperament — a  word  which  we  purposely 
use  somewhat  vaguely  ;  4.  Memory.  Of  course  it  is  easy  to  ex- 
cept to  this  division  as  imperfect  and  inaccurate,  but  it  is  our 
object  to  write  for  multitudes  who  are  neither  finished  chess- 
players nor  metaphysicians.  Under  the  first  head,  then,  we  would 
say  that  Mr.  Morphy's  invention  seems  marvellous.  He  is  emi- 
nently an  attacking  player,  and  his  schemes  for  harassing  his 
adversary  are  as  various  as  they  are  brilliant.  You  might  play 
with  him  for  a  year  without  being  able  to  affirm,  as  Cicero  did  of 
Hortensius,  '■  Nbvi  omnes  hominis  'petitiones?  Chess-players  will 
understand  us  when  we  say  that  his  assaults  remind  us  of  the 
fiery  onslaught  of  Mr.  Cochrane,  but  will  bear  scrutiny  better. 
And  here  we  may  remark  (though  conscious  that  we  are  trespass- 
ing on  other  divisions  of  our  subject)  that  Mr,  Morphy's  style 
of  play  is  singularly  fearless — more  so,  we  must  confess,  than 
any  which  we  have  yet  seen  opposrcd  to  it.  He  is  ready,  for  in- 
stance, to  give  or  accept  any  of  the  most  critical  '  gambits,'  instead 
of  confining  himself  to  the  safer  openings  at  present  in  fashion. 
This  adds  greatly  to  the  spectator's  pleasure.  We  remember  how 
much  disappointment  was  caused  at  the  time  of  Mr.  Staunton's 
conflict  with  M.  St.  Amant,  by  the  pertinacious  refusal  of  the  latter 
to  answer  *  K  P  2'  with  '  K  P  2.'  The  American  champion  dislikes 
the  anomaly  of  a  '  close  opening.'  And  well  he  may ;  for,  secondly, 
his  great  power  of  analysis  tells  most  in  involved  and  compli- 
cated positions.  Aided  by  a  wonderful  knowledge  of  chess- 
books  and  of  the  recorded  games  of  the  best  players,  he  aims 
(and  generally  with  success)  at  looking  farther  forward  than  his 
antagonist's  cowp  d'ml  can  reach,  confident  that  none  of  the  thou- 
sand intermediate  variations  has  been  overlooked.     Play  a  dozen 


PREFACE.  7 

back  games  with  him,  and  you  will  fail  to  show  him  any  contin- 
gency which  he  had  not  contemplated.  Mr.  Morphy's  tempera- 
ment, thirdly,  is  much  in  his  favor.  Look  at  him  as  he  plays. 
You  are  at  first  struck  principally  by  the  roomy  forehead,  clear 
eye,  and  fine  well-placed  ear;  but  when  you  have  observed  him 
long  or  frequently,  you  discover  that  he  is  never  flurried,  never 
nervous — that  a  defeat  does  not  discourage  nor  a  victory  elate  him. 
Young  as  he  is,  he  is  always  calm  and  self-ppssessed,  whether  in 
the  quiet  circle  of  the  St.  George's  Club  or  in  the  noisier  gallery 
of  the  Chess  Divan,  and  is,  consequently,  as  sure  as  any  player 
we  ever  saw  to  do  his  own  powers  justice  under  the  mental  ten- 
sion of  a  long  match  and  the  trials  of  temper  which  frequently 
attend  it.  We  must  here  record  the  pleasure  with  which  we  have 
witnessed  the  kind,  friendly  reception  given  by  the  English 
players  to  their  formidable  competitor,  and  also  the  unassum- 
ing courtesy  which  invariably  murks  Mr.  Morphy's  demeanor. 
Fourthly.  A  few  words  under  the  head  of  memory  and  we  have 
done.  Mr.  Morphy  seems  to  forget  nothing,  from  the  game  which 
he  himself  played  yesterday  to  that  which  he  read  in  the  Chess 
Chronicle  a  year  ago.  He  has  more  than  once  puzzled  English 
players  with  '  dodges'  of  their  own  invention  which  they  had 
actually  forgotten.  But  perhaps  his  most  wonderful  perform- 
ances have  been  those  in  which  memory  and  imagination  seem  to 
work  together — we  mean  games  played  blindfold,  or  without 
sight  of  the  board.  Philidor  played  three  such  games  at  once 
successfully  against  skilful  antagonists.  Harrwitz  has  more  re- 
cently done  the  same.  Mr.  Morphy  has  played  seven  simulta- 
neously, losing  only  one,  and  winning  the  other  six !  This  is 
indeed  astonishing ;  but  we  trust  our  ingenious  visitor  will  be 
content  with  having  once  done  the  feat.  As  Dr.  Johnson  said  of 
a  young  lady's  masterpiece  of  fingering  on  the  pianoforte,  '  It  is 
very  diflScult;  we  wish  it  were  impossible.'  Sure  we  are  that 
not  even  Mr.  Morphy's  brains  can  repeatedly  endure  such  a  stra'n 
without  injury.  A  less  degree  of  the  same  effort  killed  La  Bour- 
donnais,  and  had  nearly  destroyed  Harrwitz.  And  even  could  it 
be  made  with  impunity,  the  spectacle  is  rather  curious  than  pleas- 
ing. We  feel  sure  we  will  be  pardoned  for  these  remarks ;  they 
arise  from  a  sincere  wish  that  Mr.  Morphy  may  long  live  to  prac- 
tice freely  and  without  arbitrary  fetters  the  art  of  which  he  is  so 
distinguished  a  professor." 

The  eight  blindfold  games  played  by  ^Ir.  Morphy  at  Birming- 
ham, subsequent  to    the   appearance    of  the    above    article  in 


8  PREFACE. 

TTie  Press,  will  be  found  herein.     They  will  speak  for  them- 
selves. 

The  Problems. — The  chess  positions  herein  are  the  result  of  a 
problem  tournament  proposed  some  mouths  since  by  us  as  Chess 
Editor  of  Frank  Leslie''s  llhistraled  Neiospaper.  In  this  tournay 
were  offered  four  prizes.  The  first  was  a  collection  of  portraits 
of  all  composers  who  saw  fit  to  send  a  single  three-move  problem 
accompanied  by  their  likeness.  The  composer  of  the  best  prob- 
lem to  take  the  collection.  The.  Committee  awarded  this  prize  to 
Theodore  M.  Brown,  of  St.  Louis,  Mo.  The  prize  problem  is  No. 
1  of  the  series.  This  prize  called  out  eleven  competitors,  and, 
strange  to  say,  all  the  eleven  problems  are  believed  to  be  sound. 
They  are  No.  1  to  No.  11,  as  herein  printed. 

The  next  prize,  for  best  three-move  position,  was  awarded  to 
George  N.  Cheney,  Syracuse,  N.  Y.  It  is  printed  as  No.  12. 
The  problems  selected  for  publication  in  competition  for  this 
prize  are  Nos.  12  to  22,  inclusive. 

The  four-move  prize  was  awarded  to  James  H.  Morrison,  Avon 
Springs,  N.  Y.,  for  problem  No.  23.  The  others  published  of 
this  series  go  up  to  No.  28. 

The  five-move  prize  was  awarded  to  Theodore  M.  Brown,  !>t. 
Louis,  Mo.,  the  composer  of  No.  29.  Tlie  selected  competing 
problems  for  this  prize  range  to  No.  39. 

The  Examining  Committee  consisted  of  Theodore  Lichtenhein, 
President  of  the  New  York  Chess  Club,  Dr.  Benjamin  I.  Kaphael, 
also  of  the  N.  Y.  Club,  and  Willifun  Horner,  of  the  Brooklyn  Chess 
Club.  We  are  greatly  indebted  to  the  Committee  for  their  patient 
examination  of  eighty-three  prolUms,  being  all  that  were  entered 
in  competition  for  the  four  prizet^.  We  are  also  much  indebted 
to  Matthew  Wilson,  Esq.,  New  Bedford,  Mass.,  for  a  preliminary 
examination,  with  the  view  of  selecting  the  unsound  positions. 
Singular  to  relate,  the  Committee  agreed  upon  the  prize  problems 
without  consultation^,  and  loithout  knowledge  of  the  authors'  names. 

T.  F. 

BROOKLYN  CHESS  CLUB, 
Corner  Court  and  Remson  streets, 
January  10,  1850. 


INDEX. 


MORPHY'S    GAMES    WITH 

6AMK.  PASK. 

Zoicenthal—'PhiM^or^a  Defence I.  IS 

Zotcenthal— King's  Gambit  Declined II.  14 

Zowenthal—TQtroTs  Defence Ill  15 

Lowenthal — King's  Gambit  Declined lY.  17 

Lowentlial — Petroff's  Defence V.  IS 

ZoweniAoZ— Sicilian  Opening VI.  19 

ZowenttaZ— Philidor's  Defence VII.  20 

XoweMi/iaZ— Philidor's  Defence VIII,  21 

Lowenthal — Giuoco  Piano IX.  22 

Lowenthal — French  Opening X.  24 

Lowenthal — Sicilian  Defence XL  25 

Lowenthal—'Bxench.  Opening  XII.  26 

Lowenthal-VetvoTs  Defence XIII.  27 

Lowe7iihal — Euy  Lopez  Knight's  Game XIV.  23 

Harrwitz — Irregular  Opening XV.  29 

Harrwitz — Philidor's  Defence XVI.  31 

Hamcits — Irregular  Opening XVII.  31 

Harrwitz— ?\i\\\^of%  Defence XVIIL  33 

Harrwitz— }.vxeg\\\sx  Opening XIX.  34 

^ar;'M)i^2!— Philidor's  Defence XX.  85 

Hamoitz — Irregular  Opening XXI.  36 

jyarrtcite— Philidor's  Defence  — XXII.  37 

Harrwitz— A.\\g&\&v  Gambit XXIII.  39 

MorphytiXi^  5ar7ies  iiii^nsultation,  &g&mi\, Staunton  and 

''Alter''  {Oioen)  in  consultation— Philidor's  Defence . .  XXIV.  40 
Between  the  same    players    in   consultation — Irregular 

Opening XXV. 

1* 


42 


10  INDEX. 

ana.  TASK. 

Boden—'RviY  Lopez XXVL  44 

JSircZ— Philidor's  Defence XXVII.  45 

Versailles  Chess  C^m6— (Blindfold),  Irregular  Opening,. XXVIII.  46 

Kipping— Ev&ns'  Gambit XXIX  47 

Consultation  game  played  at  the  London  Chess  Club,  be- 
tween Morphy.  Walker,  and  Greenaway,  against 
Mongredien,    Zowenthal,    and    Medley— Bishop^a 

Gambit XXX.  48 

£arnes—B,uj  Lopez  Opening XXXI.  49 

Barnes — Irregular  Opening XXXII.  50 

.Ba«c7^e?'— King's  Gambit XXXIII.  51 

Journov,d—^\c\\\3.n  Defence XXXIV.  53 

Consultation  game  between  Morphy  and  Mongredien^ 

Lowenthal  and  Medley— VMMor's,  Defence XXXV.  53 

.Barnes— Philidor's   Defence XXXVL  54 

.BircZ— Evans'  Gambit XXXVIL  55 

^ar-tt es—Philidor's    Defence XXXVIIL  56 

Xipping—Evms'  Gambit XXXIX  57 

Medley— King's  Gambit XL.  58 

De  Riviere — Ruy  Lopez  Opening XLI.  59 

De  Riviere— Eyms'  Gambit XLII.  60 

De  Riviere— ^y&ns'  Gambit XLIII.  60 

Bodenr-Unj  Lopez  Knight's  Game XLIV.  62 

De  Riviere  and  Journoiid  consulting— Evans'  Gambit. . XLV.  63 

Barnes— Philidor's  Defence XLVI.  64 

De  Riviere — Euy  Lopez  Knight's  Game XLVII.  65 

Paulsen— \vreg\\\ax  Opening XLVIII.  66 

Schidten— King's  Gambit  Eefused XLIX.  68 

Schulten — Bishop's  Gambit L.  69 

7'7ioni2JSon— Evans'  Gambit LI.  70 

Lichien7iein—V QiroWs  Defence LII.  71 

Lichtenhein — Evans'  Gambit LIII.  72 

J/aracAe— Evans'  Gambit  LIV.  73 

Schulten — Evans'  Gambit LV.  74 

Julien — King's  Knight's  Gambit LVI.  75 

Pe?Tin,— Sicilian  Opening LVII.  76 

^e?MWCoW— Scotch  Gambit LVIII.  77 

Thompson— 'Ey&ns'  Gambit LIX.  78 

Schulten — Euy  Lopez  Knight's  Game LX  79 


INDEX.  11 

Mr. .     One  of  three  blindfold  games— Evans' 

Gambit LXL  80 

Perrin,  Fuller,  and  Fishe  consulting— Two  Knights' 

Defence LXII.  81 

Amateur — Muzio  Gambit LXIII.  82 

Stanley— OMs  of  Pawn  and  Move LXIV.  83 

Lowenthal—^iQ,\\\KQ.  Opening LXV.  84 

ZicAienAawi— (Blindfold),  King's  Kiight's  Gambit LXVI.  85 

Jlfowrain— Allgaier  Gambit LXVII.  86 

Amateur— Tvro  Bishops'  Opening LXVIII.  87 

Amateur— E\&m'  Gambit LXIX.  83 

^OTO^ewr— Scotch  Gambit ,. LXX.  88 

J.TOaf€«r— Muzio  Gambit LXXI.  ""^89 

Ernest  Morphy—Ruy  Lopez  Knight's  Game LXXII.  90 

Amateur— FetrofPs  Defence LXXIII.  90 

-Barnes— Philidor's  Defence LXXIV.  91 

^o(Zen— Scotch  Gambit LXXV.  91 

^A;i7i— Allgaier  Gambit LXXVI.  92 

Kipping— Eva.n5'  Gambit LXXVII.  93 

Kipphig—Evms'  Gambit LXXVIII.  94 

Medley— A\]ga.\er  Gambit LXXIX.  94 

Boden— King's  Gambit  Evaded LXXX,  95 

^ircZ— Philidor's  Defence LXXXI.  96 

^/rcZ— Evans' Gambit LXXXII.  96 

Barnes— Knight's  Defence  in  King's  Bishop's  Opening.  .LXXXIII.  97 

Lichtenhei7i— Scotch  Gambit LXXXIY.  93 

A  mateur—1^0  Knights'  Defence LXXX Y.  99 

^ocZeri— Evans'  Gambit LXXXVL  99 

^oc?e7i— Scotch  Gambit LXXXVIL  100 

Eight    blindfold  games  played  simultaneously  at  Bii 
mingh^m. 

ZiWZe^oTj^Allgaier  Gambit LXXXVIIL  101 

/iSaZmoTi- Evans'  Gambit LXXXIX.  102 

J.cery— Sicilian  Opening XO.  102 

Kipping— Scotch.  Gambit XCL  103 

Rhodes— King's  Gambit  Declined XCIL  104 

Freeman^-King's  Bishop's  Gambit .XCIIL  105 

Car/"— Irregular  Opening XCIV.  106 

TFiKs— Sicilian  Opening XOV.  106 


12  INDEX. 


Eight  blindfold  games  played  simultaneously  at  Paris. 

Boueher^ThiMofa  Defence XCYI.  107 

BierwirtTb—Fiench  Opening XCVII.  108 

Bornejnanii— King's  Gambit  Declined XCVIII.  109 

Guibert—lTTega\a.r  Opening XCIX.  110 

Lequesne — Irregular  Opening C,  111 

Potier—Veivofts,  Defence CI.  112 

Pret*— Sicilian  Opening CII.  112 

/S'efi'WMi— Phllidor's  Defence GUI.  113 

Chess  Problems 115 

Solutions  to  Chess  Problems 135 


MORPHY'S    GAMES. 


GAME    I. 

Between  Morphy  and  Lowenthal. 
philidoe's  defence. 


WHITE.    Mr.  L. 

BLACK.     Mr.  M. 

1.  P.  to  K;s  4th. 

1.  P.  to  K.'s  4th. 

2.  Kt.  to  K.  B.'s  3rd. 

2.  P.  to  Q."s  3rd. 

8.  P.  to  Q.'s  4th. 

3.  P.  takes  P. 

4.  Kt.  takes  P. 

4.  Kt.  to  K.  B.'s  3rd.  (a) 

5.  Kt  to  Q.  B.'s  Srd- 

5.  B.  to  K.'s  2nd. 

6.  B.  to  K.'s  2nd. 

6.  Castles. 

7.  Castles. 

7.  P.  to  Q.  B.'s  4th. 

8.  Kt.  to  K.  B.'s  3rd. 

8.  Kt  to  Q.  B.'s  8rd. 

9.  B.  to  K.  B.'s  4th. 

9.  B.  to  K.'s  3rd. 

10,  Q.  to  Q.'s  2nd. 

10.  P.  to  Q.'s  4ta. 

11.  P.  takes  P.  (&) 

11.  Kt.  takes  P. 

12.  Q.  E.  to  Q.'s  so. 

12.  Kt  takes  B. 

13.  Q.  takes  Kt. 

13.  Q.  to  Q.  E.'s  4th. 

14.  B.  to  Q.'s  3rd. 

14  Q.  E.  to  Q.'s  sq. 

15.  Kt.  to  K.  Kt's  5th. 

15.  B.  takes  Kt 

16.  Q.  takes  B. 

16.  P.  to  K.  E.'s  3rd. 

17.  Q.  to  K.  K.'s  4th. 

17.  Kt.  to  Q.'s  5th.  (c) 

18.  P.  to  Q.  R.'s  3rd.  (<f) 

18.  K.  E.  to  K.'s  sq. 

19.  K  R.  to  K.'s  sq. 

19.  Q.  to  Q.  Kt.'s  3rd. 

20.  Kt.  to  Q.  E.'s  4th. 

20.  Q.  to  Q.  E.'s  4th. 

21.  Kt  to  Q.  B.'s  3rd. 

21.  P.  to  K.  B.'s  4th. 

22.  E.  to  K.'s  5th. 

22.  B.  to  K.  B.'s  2nd. 

23.  Q.  E.  to  K.'s  sa. 

23.  Q.  to  Q.  Kt.'s  3rd. 

24.  E.  takes  E. 

24.  E.  takes  E. 

25.  E.  takes  E.  (ch.) 

25.  B.  takes  E. 

26.  Q.  to  K.'s  7th. 

26.  B.  to  B.'s  2nd. 

27.  Kt  to  Q.  E.'s  4th. 

27.  Q.  to  Q.  E.'s  4th. 

28.  Kt  takes  Q.  B.'s  P. 

28.  Q.  to  Q."s  7th. 

29.  P.  to  K.  B.'s  3rd.  (e) 

29.  Kt  to  Q.  B.'s  3rd.  (/) 

80.  Q.  to  K.'s  2nd.  (g) 

80.  Q.  to  B.'s  Sth  (ch.) 

81.  K.  to  B.'s  2nd. 

81.  Q.  takes  Kt  P. 

82.  B.  takes  P.  (h) 

83.  Q.  to  Q.  Kt's  5th.  (t) 

82,  Q.  takes  E.  P. 

83.  Q.  to  Q.  B."s  6th.  (k) 

84.  Kt  to  Q.  Kt.'s  3rd 

84.  Q.  to  K.  B.'s  3rd. 

85.  Q.  takes  Q.  Kt.'s  P. 

85.  P.  to  K.  Kt.'s  3rd. 

86.  Q.  to  Q.  B.'s  8th  (ch.) 

86.  K  to  E.'s  2nd. 

87.  B.  to  Q.'8  3rd. 

87.  Kt  to  K.'8  4th. 

88.  Kt  to  Q.'s  2nd. 

88.  Q.toE.'5  5th.(eh.) 

14 

89.  K.  to  B.'s  sq.  89,  Q.  takes  E.  P. 

40.  Kt.  to  K.'s  4th.  40.  E.  to  K.  E.'s  8th.  (ch. 

41.  K  to  B.'s  2nd.  41.  Q.  to  Q.  B.'s  Sth. 

42.  Q.  to  Q.  B.'s  3rd.  42.  Q.  to  K.  B.'s  Sth. 

43.  K.  to  K.'s  2nd.  43.  P.  to  K.  E.'s  4th. 

44.  Kt.  to  K.  B.'s  2nd.  44.  P.  to  K.  E.'s  5th. 

45.  Q.  to  Q.'s  2nd.  45.  Q.  to  K.  Kt.'s  6th. 

46.  Q.  to  K.'s  3rd.  46.  P.  to  Q.  E.'s  4th. 

47.  Q.  to  K.'s  4th.  47.  B.  to  K.'s  3rd. 

48.  P.  to  K.  B.'s  4th.  48.  Kt.  takes  B. 

49.  P.  takes  Kt.  49.  B.  to  K.  Kt's  5th.  (ch.) 

50.  K.  to  B.'s  sq.  50.  B.  to  K.  B.'s  4th. 

51.  Q.  to  K.'s  7th  (ch.)  51.  K.  to  E.'s  3icL 

Drawn  game. 

(a)  Mr.  Morphy  here  very  judiciously  preferred  bringing  out  the  King's 
Knight  to  the  advance  of  the  Q.'s  P.,  as  this  would  have  given  the  White 
the  better  game. 

(b)  P.  to'K.'s  5th  would  have  been  bad  play,  as  Black  would  then  have 
moved  the  Kt.  to  K.  E.'s  4th,  followed  by  P.  to  Q.'s  5th,  with  an  excellent 
position. 

(c)  A  very  good  move,  which  might  have  proved  dangerous  had  "White 
omitted  to  make  the  proper  reply. 

(d)  The  only  correct  move.  Had  "White  played  P.  to  K.'s  3rd,  or  K.  E. 
to  K.'s  sq..  Black  would  have  gained  at  least  a  Pawn  by  playing  Q.  to  her 
Kt's  5th,  &c. 

(e)  Had  "White  played  P.  to  K.  E.'s  3rd,  Black  would  have  drawn  the 
game  by  perpetual  check,  and  if  P.  to  K.  Kt's  3rd,  Black  would  have  won 
e.asily  by  playing  Q.  to  Q.'s  Sth  (ch.),  &c. 

(./)  Very  well  played ;  it  forces  the  retreat  of  "White's  Queen  from  a 
square  where  she  occupied  a  strong  position. 

{g)  It  is  obvious  that  had  "White  captured  the  Q.  Kt's  P.,  the  loss  of  a 
piece  would  have  immediately  followed. 

(7i)  This  was  much  better  than  playing  the  P.  to  Q.  E.'8  4th,  as  Black 
would  then  have  moved  the  Queen  to  her  Kt's  5th,  &c. 

(i)  Kt.  taking  Kt.'s  P..  instead  of  the  move  in  the  text  would  have  been 
bad  play ;  Black  would  have  replied  with  Q.  to  Q  Kt's  5th.  threatening  to 
take  the  Kt,  and  at  the  same  time  improve  the  position  of  his  Queen. 

(k)  Correctly  played.  Had  Black  preferred  Kt  to  Q.'s  5th,  "White  would 
have  replied  Q.  takes  Q.  Kt  Black's  best  move  would  then  have  been  Kt. 
takes  B.,  to  which  White  would  have  answered  with  Q.  to  Q.  B.'s  Sth  (ch.), 
regaining  the  piece  with  a  pawn  ahead  and  a  good  position. 


GAME    II. 

Between  Morphy  and  Lowenthal. 
king's  gambit  declined. 

BLACK.      Mr,  M.  WHITE.      Ml*.  L. 

1,  P,  to  K.'s  4th,  1,  P.  to  K.'s  4th. 

2.  P.  to  K.  B.'s  4th,  2,  K.  B.  to  Q.  B.'s  4th. 
8,  K.  Kt  to  K.  B.'s  3rd.  8.  P.  to  Q.'s  3rd. 

4.  P.  to  Q.  B.'s  3rd.  4.  Q.  B.  to  K.  Kt's  5th. 

6.  K.  B.  to  Q.'s  B.'s  4th.  5.  B.  takes  Kt 

6,  Q.  takes  B.  6.  K.  Kt  to  B.'s  3rd, 

7,  P.  to  Q.  Kt.'s  4th,  (a)  7.  B.  to  Q,  Kt's  3rd. 

8,  P.  to  Q.'8  3rd.  8.  Q.  Kt  to  Q.'s  2na, 


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23. 

K.  to  K.'s  sq. 

24. 

B.  takes  Kt.^ 

25. 

K.  to  Q.'s  2nd. 

26. 

K  to  B.'s  2nd. 

27. 

Kt  to  Q.'s  2nd. 

28.  Kt  to  Kt.'s  sq. 


9.  P.  to  K.  B.'s  5th.  9.  Q.  to  K.'s  2nd. 

10.  P.  to  K.  Kt.'s  4th.  10.  P.  to  K.  K.'s  3rd. 

11.  K.  to  K.'s  2nd.  11.  P.  to  Q.  B.'s  3rd. 

12.  P.  to  K.  Kt's  5th.  12.  P.  takes  P. 

13.  B.  takes  P.  13.  P.  to  Q.'s  4th. 

14.  B.  to  Q.  Kt.'s  3rd.  (&)  14.  Q.  to  Q.'s  3rd. 

15.  Kt.  to  Q.'s  2nd.  15.  P.  to  Q.  K.'s  4th. 

16.  P.  takes  K.'s  P.  16.  R.  takes  P.  (c) 

17.  P.  to  K.  K.'s  4th.  17.  K.  Kt.  to  K.  K.'s  4th. 

18.  Kt.  to  K.  B.'s  sq.  IS.  Q.  Kt.  to  Q.  B.'s  4th. 

19.  K.  B.  to  Q.  B.'s  2nd.  19.  Q.  K.  to  Q.  Kt's  4th.  ((Z) 

20.  Q.  B.  to  Q.  B.'s  sq.  (e)  20.  Q.  P.  takes  P.  (/) 

21.  P.  takes  P.  21.  R.  to  Q.  Kt's  7th.  (g) 

22.  B.  takes  R.  22.  Kt  to  K.  B.'s  5th.  (ch. 
--                  '                                                23.  Kt  to  Q.'s  6th.  (ch.) 

24.  Kt  takes  B.  (ch.)      .. 
(h)  25.  Kt  takes  B.  (dis.  ch.) 

26.  Q.  to  Q.  K.'s  6th.  (i) 

27.  B.  to  Q.  B.'s  2nd.  (^) 

And  white  Eesigns. 

(a)  This  appears  lost  time ;  P.  to  Q."s  3rd  at  once  might  have  been 
better. 

(b)  If  Black  had  taken  Pawn  with  Pawn,  "White  would  have  gained  a 
fine  attack  bj--  pushing  P.  to  K.'s  5th. 

(c)  Wliite's  pieces  are  all  well  in  play,  and  he  has  an  excellent  game. 

(d)  It  was  afterwards  pointed  out  by  Mr.  Medley,  that  K.  to  Q.  K.'s  6th 
here  would  have  been  stronger  play,  and,  on  examination,  such  will  be 
found  the  case. 

(e)  Black's  position  is  now  any  thing  but  an  enviable  one,  and  his  adver- 
sary, with  ordinary  care,  ought  to  have  secured  the  victory. 

(/)  Kt  to  K.  B.'s  5th  (cii.)  at  once,  was  the  proper  move,  for  if  21  B. 
takes  Kt.,  21  R.  to  Q.  Kt.'s  7th,  renders  "White's  game  hopeless. 

(f7)  This,  as  the  result  proved,  was  a  foolish  sacrifice. 

(/t)  In  forming  the  plan  of  attack  on  the  19th  move,  Mr.  L.  concluded  too 
hastily  that  the  Black  King  could  never  be  played  here,  exposed  as  he  is  to 
the  check  by  discovery,  whereas  it  is  the  only  move  to  save  game,  and 
makes  the  sacrifice  of  the  Kook  referred  to  utterly  useless. 

(0  Kt.  to  Q.  B.'s  5th  might  even  now  have  led  to  the  game  being  drawn. 

\K)  This  is  an  unaccountable  blunder  to  occur  in  a  match  of  such  im- 
portance. 


GAME    III. 

Between  Morphy  and  Lowenthal. 
peteoff's  defence. 
WHITE.     Mr.  L.  BLACK.     Mr.  M. 

1.  P.  to  K.'s  4th.  1.  P.  to  K.'s  4th. 

2.  K.  Kt  to  B.'s  3rd.  2.  Kt.  to  K.  B.'s  3rd. 
S.  Kt.  takes  P.                            .  3.  P.  to  Q.'s  Srd. 

4.  Kt  to  K.  B.'s  3rd.  4.  Kt.  takes  P. 

5.  P.  to  Q.'s  4th  5.  P.  to  Q.'s  4th. 

6.  B.  to  Q.'s  Srd.  6.  B.  to  K.'s  2nd. 

T.  Castles.  7.  Kt.  to  Q.  B.'s  Srd.  (a) 


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MORPHY  S    GAMES    OF   CHESS. 


34. 


R.  to  K.'3  sq. 

P.  to  Q.  B.'s  4th. 

P.  takes  P. 

Kt.  to  Q.  B.'s  3rd. 

P.  takes  Kt. 

Q.  B.  to  K.  B.'s  4th. 

B.  takes  B. 

Kt.  to  K.'s  5th. 

P.  to  Q.  B.'s  4th.  (5) 

Kt.  takes  Kt. 

B.  to  K.  B.'s  sq. 

Q.  to  Q.'s  2nd. 

E.  takes  R. 

Q.  to  Q.  R.'s  5th  (c) 

Q.  takes  Q.  B.'s  P. 

Q.  to  K,  B.'s  4th. 

P.  to  K.  R.'s  3rd. 

Q.  to  Q.  B.'s  7th. 

R.  to  K.'s  7th. 

Q.  to  Q.  B.'s  8th.  (ch.) 

Q.  to  Q.  B.'s  7th. 

Q.  to  K.'s  5th. 

Q.  to  K.'s  2nd. 

R.  to  K.'s  5th, 

P.  to  K.  B.'s  3rd. 

P.  to  K.  R.'s  4th. 

P.  to  Q.  B.'s  5th. 

R.  to  K.'s  4th. 

K.  to  R.'s  2nd. 

K.  to  Kt.'s  sq. 

Q.  to  Q.  R.'s  6th. 

Q.  to  Q.'s  3rd. 

Q.  to  Q.  R.'s  6th. 

P.  to  K.  Kt's  3rd. 

K.  to  Kt.'s  2nd. 

K.  takes  P. 

B.  to  Kt's  2nd. 

Q.  to  K.  B.'s  sq. 

B.  takes  Q. 

B.  to  Q.  B.'s  4th. 

R.  takes  B. 

K.  to  K.  B.'s  4th. 

R.  to  Q.'s  4th. 

R.  to  Q.  R.'s  4th. 

R.  takes  R.'s  P.  (e) 

R.  to  Q.  R.'s  sq. 

P.  to  K.  R.'s  5th 

K.  to  B.'s  5th. 

K.  to  B.'s  4th. 

R.  to  R.'s  6th.  (ch.)  (/) 

R.  takes  P. 

R.  takes  P.  (ch.) 

E.  to  K.  R.'s  7th. 

R.  to  Q.'s  7th.  (ch.) 

K.  to  K.'s  3rd, 

K.  to  B.'s  2nd.  (g) 

R.  to  Q.  B.'s  7th.  (ch.) 

R.  to  Q.'s  7th.  (ch.) 

R.  to  Q.  B.'s  7th.  (ch.) 

E.  to  Q.'s  7th.  (ch.) 


P.  to  K.  B.'s  4th. 

B.  to  K.'s  3rd. 

B.  takes  P. 

Kt.  takes  Kt. 

Castles. 

B.  to  Q.'s  3rd. 

Q,  takes  B. 

Q.  R.  to  K.'s  sq. 

B.  to  K.'s  3rd. 

P.  takes  Kt. 

B.  to  K.  B.'s  2nd. 

E.  takes  E. 

E.  to  Q.'s  sq. 

Q.  takes  Q.'s  P. 

Q.  to  Q.  Kt.'s  3rd. 

P,  to  K.  Kt's  3rd. 

Q.  to  Q.  Kt.'s  7th. 

Q.  to  Q.  Kt's  3rd. 

E.  to  Q.'s  Sth. 

E.  to  Q.'s  sq. 

E.  to  Q.'s  Sth.  (cl) 

Q.  to  Q.'s  Kt's  Sth. 

K.  to  K.  B.'s  sq. 

P.  to  K.  B.'s  5th, 

Q.  to  Q.  B.'s  Sth, 

P.  to  K.  R.'s  3rd. 

K.  to  Kt.'s  2nd. 

Q.  takes  P.  (ch.) 

Q.  to  Q.  B.'s  Sth. 

R.  toQ.'s7th. 

R.  takes  Q.  R.'s  P. 

R.  to  Q.'s  7th, 

R.  to  Q.'s  Sth. 

P.  takes  P. 

Q.  to  Q.  B.'s  4th. 

Q.  to  K.  Kt.'s  Sth.  (ch.) 

R,  to  Q.'s  7th. 

Q.  takes  Q. 

K.  to  B.'s  3rd. 

B.  takes  B. 

R.  to  Q.'s  3rd, 

R.  to  K.'s  3rd. 

K.  to  K.'s  2nd. 

K  to  Q  's  3rd. 

P.  to  Q.  B.'s  4th. 

P.  to  Q.  B.'s  5th. 

P,  takes  P. 

R.  to  K.'s  6th. 

R.  to  K.'s  sq. 

K.  to  Q.'s  4th. 

P,  to  Q.  B.'s  6th. 

K.  to  Q.'s  5th. 

R.  to  Q.  B.'s  sq, 

K,  toQ.  B.'s  5th. 

R.  to  K.'s  sq.  (ch.) 

P.  to  Q.  B.'s  7th. 

K.  to  Q.'s  6th, 

K.  to  B.'s  6th. 

K.  to  Q.'8  7th. 

K.  to  B.'s  8tfa. 


morpht's  games  of  chess. 


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68.  E.  to  Q.  Kt.'s  7th. 

69.  P.  to  B.'s4th. 

70.  K.  to  B.s  3rd. 

71.  R.  to  K.  E.'s  7th. 

72.  R.  toK.  R.'ssq. 

73.  E.  takes  Q. 

74.  K.  to  K.'s  4th. 

75.  K.  to  Q/s  4th. 

76.  P.  to  B.'s  5th. 
7T.  K.  to  Q."s  5th. 

78.  P.  to  B.'s  6th, 

79.  P.  to  B.'s  7th, 

80.  Resigns. 


68.  E.  to  K.'s  4th. 

69.  E.  to  K"s  5th. 

70.  R.  to  Q.  B.'s  5th. 

71.  K.  to  Q.'s  7th. 

72.  P.  Queens. 

73.  R.  takes  R. 

74  R.  to  K.'s  Sth.  (ch.) 

75.  K.  to  K.'s  7th 

76.  K.  to  B.'s  6th. 

77.  K.  to  B.'s  5th. 

78.  K.  Kt's  4th. 

79.  E.  to  K.  B.'s  Sth. 


(a)  Castling  is  usually  adopted  at  this  point  of  the  opening. 

(b)  P.  to  K.  B.'s  4tli  would  have  given  "White  a  much  better  game. 

(c)  E.  to  Q.'s  sq.  would  have  been  of  no  avail,  as  Black  would  have 
played  up  his  Pawns  on  his  Q.  B.'s  file,  and  so  won  the  Pawn. 

(cZ)  Mr.  Morphy  would  here  have  elected  to  draw. 

(e)  This  Pawn  could  never  have  been  saved. 

(/)  The  position  is  a  singular  one,  and  deserves  attention  from  the 
student.  With  the  advantage  of  two  Pawns,  Black  was  powerless  to  win, 
and  nothing  but  carelessness  on  the  part  of  White  could  have  obviated  the 
draw. 

{g)  This  was  a  grievous  error,  K^  to  B.'s  4tb  would  have  insured  the 
draw. 


GAME    IV 

Between  Morphy  and  Lowenthal. 

KI^iTG's    GAMBIT    DECLINED. 


BLACK.     Mr.  M. 

'WHITE.     Mr.  L. 

1.  P.  to  K.-s  4th. 

1.  P.  to  K.'s  4th. 

2.  P.  to  K.  B.'s  4th. 

2.  B.  to  Q.  B.'s  4th. 

3.  K.  Kt.  to  B.'s  3rd. 

3.  P.  to  Q.'s  3rd. 

4.  P.  to  Q.  B.'s  3rd. 

4.  B.  to  K.  Kt's  Sth. 

5.  K.  B.  to  K's  2nd. 

5.  B.  takes  Kt. 

6.  B.  takes  B. 

6.  Kt  to  Q.  B.'s  3rd. 

7.  P.  to  Q.  Kt's  4th. 

7.  B.  to  Q.  Kt's  3rd. 

8.  P.  to  Q.  Kt.'6  Sth. 

8.  Q.  Kt  to  K.'s  2nd. 

9.  P.  to  Q.  s  4th. 

9.  P.  takes  B.  P.  (a) 

10.  Q.  B.  takr-s  P. 

10.  Q.  Kt  to  K.  Kt's  3rd. 

11.  Q.  B.  to  K.'s  3rd. 

11.  K.  Kt  to  B.'s  3rd. 

12.  Q.  Kt.  to  Q.'s  2nd- 

12.  Castles. 

13.  Castles. 

13.  P.  to  K.  E.'s  3rd. 

14.  P.  to  Q.  E.'s  4th.    ■ 

14.  P.  to  Q.  B.'s  3rd. 

15.  Q.  to  K.'s  2nd. 

15.  K.  R.  to  K.'s  sq. 

16.  Q.  to  Q.'s  3rd.  (fi) 

16.  P.  to  Q.'s  4th. 

17.  P.  to  K.'s  5th. 

17.  K.  Kt  to  Q  's  2nd. 

18.  K.  B.  toK.  E.'s  5th.  (c) 

18.  R.  to  K.'s  3rd.  (d) 

19.  P.  to  Q.  E.'s  5th.  (e) 

19.  B.  to  Q.  B.'s  2Dd. 

20.  E.  takes  K.  B.  P. 

20.  K.  takes  R.  (/) 

21.  Q.  to  K.  B.'s  5th.  (ch.) 

21.  K.  to  K.'s  2nd. 

2-2.  B.  t.nkos  Kt. 

22.  Q.  to  K.  Kt's  sq. 

23.  Q.  B.  to  K.  B.'s  2nd. 

23.  Kt.  takes  K.  P.  (g.) 

24.  Q.  P.  takes  KL 

24.  Q.  R.  to  K.  B.'s  sq. 

18  MORPHT  S    GAMES    OF    CHESS. 

25.  B.  to  Q,  B/s  5th.  (ch.)  25.  K  to  Q-'s  sq. 

26.  B.  takes  Q.  E.  26.  E.  takes  P. 

27.  Q.  to  K.  K.'s  2nfl.  27.  Q.  to  K."s  3rcL 

28.  P.  to  Q.  Kt."9  6th.  2S.  P.  takes  P. 

29.  P.  takes  P.  29.  Q.  takes  B. 
SO.  P.  takes  B.  (ch.)  80.  K  takes  P. 
31.  E.  to  C^,  Kt."8  sq.,  resigns. 

(a)  The  books  recommend  here,  P.  takes  Q.  P.,  bat  the  move  in  the  text 
may  be  adopted  without  disadvantage. 

(h)  This  wa.s  the  proper  plaj,  providing  for  White's  intended  attack  of  P.  to 
Q,"s  4th,  ice. 

(c)  The  commencement  of  a  combination  of  much  merit. 

(d)  This  was  an  error  arisins?  from  Mr.  L.  seeine  only  when  too  late  the 
threatened  attack.  Q.  to  K,  E.'8  5th  would  have  given  White  at  least  as 
good  a  game  as  Black, 

(e)  The  sacrifice  of  the  Eook  at  once  would  have  >>€en  equally  good. 
(/)  Badly  played,  Kt.  to  K.'s  sq.  would  have  been  much  better. 

(rj)  A  useless  sacrifice,  deciding  White's  fate  at  once,  Kt.  to  K  B.'s  >)q. 
might  have  given  Black  a  chance  of  drawing.    Thus  :— 

23.  Kt  to  K  B.'s  sq. 
24.  B.  to  K  R.'8  4th  (ch.)  24.  K.  to  Q.'s  2nd. 

2.5.  B.  to  K.  B.'s  7th.  25.  P.  to  K.  Kt.B  Srd. 

26.  B.  takes  Q,  (best)  26.  P.  takes  Q, 

27.  B.  takes  E.  27.  K.  takes  B. 

Leaving  Black  with  only  a  Pawn  a  head. 

GAME    V. 

Between  Morphy  and  Lowenthal. 

petp.off's  defence. 

BLACK.     Mr.  L.  WHITE.    Mr.  M. 

1.  P.  to  K.'s  4th.  L  P.  to  K.'s  4th.  Il 

2.  Kt.  to  K.  B.'s  .3rd  2.  Kt.  to  K.  B.'s  Bra.  (a) 
8.  Kt.  takes  K  P.  8.  P.  to  Q.^s  8rd 

4  K.  Kt.  to  B.'s  Srd.  4  Kt  takes  P. 

6.  P.  to  Q.'s  4th.  5.  P.  to  Q.'s  4th, 

6.  K.  B.  to  C2,'8  Srd  6.  K.  B.  to  K.'s  2nd. 

7.  Castles.  7.  Castles. 

8.  P.  to  Q,  B.'s  4th,  S.  Q.  B.  to  K's  Srd, 

9.  Q.  B.  to  K.'s  Srd  9.  Kt  to  Q.  B.'s  Srd 

10.  P.  takes  P.  (b)  10.  Q.  B.  takes  P, 

11.  Kt  to  Q.  B.'s  Srd-  11.  P.  to  K.  B.'s  4th.  (0> 

12.  Q.  Kt.  tikes  B.  12.  Q.  takes  Kt 
*     IS.  K.  B.  to  Q.  B.'s  2nd,  13.  K  to  R."s  sq. 

14.  K.  B.  to  Q.  Kt'8  Srd  14.  Q.  to  Q.'s  Srd.  «i) 
)',.  P.  to  Q.'s  .-.th.  15.  Q.  Kt  to  R.'s  4th, 

16.  Q.  B.  to  Q.'s  4th.  16.  K.  B,  to  B.s  -Srd 

17.  K.  Pv.  to  K.'s  sq.  («)  17.  Q.  K.  to  Q  's  sq, 

15.  B.  takes  B,  18.  Kt  takes  B.  (/) 

19.  Kt  to  K,  Kt.'s  .5th,  (a)  19.  K.  Kt.  to  its  .5th, 

20.  P.  to  K.  Kt'.H  Srd  20.  Q  to  Q.  B  's  4th,  (A) 

21.  Q.  to  K/s  2Hd.  (i)  21.  Kt  takes  B. 

22.  E.  P,  takes  Kt.  22.  Q  K.  t/>  K  's  sq. 
2.3.  Q.  to  K.  B.N  Srd  23.  Kt  to  K.'s  4th. 
24  Q.  to  E."s  5th.  24.  P.  to  K.  E.'s  3rd. 


morphy's  games  of  chess. 


19 


25.  Q.  E.  to  Q.'8  sq. 

26.  Kt.  to  K's  6th. 

27.  K.  R.  to  K.  B.'s  sq. 

28.  Kt.  takes  Pw. 

29.  P.  to  K.  R.'s  3rd. 

80.  Q.  takes  P.,  and  finally  wins. 


25.  Q.  to  Q.  B.'s  7th. 

26.  Kt.  to  K.  Kt.'s  5th. 

27.  Q.  takes  P.  on  Kt's  2nd.  (k) 

28.  E.  takes  Kt. 

29.  Kt.  to  K  B.'s  Srd 


(a)  This  appears  to  be  Mr.  Morphy's  favorite  defence.  8o  commenced 
the  third  game  of  the  match — won  by  Mr.  M. 

<h)  By  playing  thus,  Black  abandons  the  advantage  this  opening  ought  to 
yield  him. 

(c)  At  this  moment  we  believe  this  is  a  safe  move. 

(r?)  Preventing  Black's  occupying  this  diagonal  with  his  Q.  B.,  and  threat- 
ening P.  to  K.  B.'s  5th. 

(<?)  Had  Black  moved  Q.  E.  to  Q.  B.  sq.,  he  would  have  lost  the  exchange, 
as  White  would  have  changed  off  the  Ku's  and  B.'s,  and  then  moved  Kt.  to 
Q.'s  7th. 

(/)  Having  a  strong  attack  on  Black's  isolated  Pawn  by  this  mode  of 
play. 

(g)  This  attack  saves  Black  his  centre  Pawn,  which  he  must  have  lost  but 
for  the  threat  of  this  cavalier  to  win  the  exchange. 

(?>)  We  arc  inclined  to  disapprove  of  this  move. 

(i)  Perhaps  E.  to  K.  B.'s  sq.  would  have  been  preferable.  White's  only 
way  to  avoid  losing  the  exchange  would  have  then  been  to  play  K.  E.  to 
K.  B.'s  3rd. 

(k)  By  this  23rd  move,  White  gave  Black  the  attack,  and  he  cannot  now 
avoid  having  a  lost  game. 


GAME    VI. 

Between  Morphy  anc!  j.owentbal. 


SICILIAN   OPENING. 


BLACK.    Mr.  M, 

L  P  to  K's  4th 
2.  P  to  (i's  4th 
.3.  Kt  to  K  B's  8rd 

4.  Kt  takes  P 

5.  Kt  takes  Kt 

6.  B  to  Q  B's  4tb 

7.  Castles 

8.  P  takes  P 

9.  B  to  Q  Kt's  5th  (ch> 

10.  B  takes  B  (ch) 

11.  K  to  K's  sq 

12.  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

13.  B  to  K  Kt's  5th  (0) 
14  Q  takes  QP 

15.  K  to  E's  sq    ' 

16.  Kt  takes  Q 


P  to  K  B  Srd 
IS.  P  takes  P 
"19.  E  to  K's  3rd 

20.  K  takes  B 

21.  E  takes  Kt 

22.  K  to  K  Kt'a  8rd 

23.  P  to  Q  B'8  4tU 


WHITE.     Mr.  L. 

1.  P  to  Q  B's  4th 

2.  P  takes  P 

3.  Kt.  to  Q.  B's  3rd 
A.  P  to  K's  4th 

5.  Kt  P  takes  Kt 

6.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

7.  P  to  Q's  4th  (a) 

8.  P  takes  P 

9.  B  to  Q's  2nd 

10.  Q  takes  B 

11.  B  to  Q's  3rd 

12.  P  to  K's  5th  (I) 

13.  Kt  to  K  Kt's  5th 

14.  B  takes  KEP(ch) 

15.  Q  takes  Q 

16.  Castles 

17.  P  takes  P 

18.  Kt  to  K's  4th 

19.  P  to  K  B's  3rd 

20.  Q  E  to  Q's  sq 
2L  P  takes  B 

22.  P  to  K  E's  8rd 
2i  E  to  K  B'8  2nd 


20 


MORPHY'S    GAMES    OF    CHESS. 


24  Q  E  to  K's  sq 

25.  P  to  Q  B-s  5th 

26.  P  to  Q  B's  6th 

27.  P  to  Q  B's  7th 
2S.  R  to  K's  Sth  (ch) 
29.  Kt  takes  K 


24  K  to  K  B's  sq 

25.  P  to  K  Kt^s  3rd 

26.  R  to  Q  B's  sq 

27.  QR  takes  P 
2S.  K  to  Kt's  2nd 
29.  Kesisrns. 


(a)  Most  inconsiderately  played :  the  loss  of  the  Pawn,  consequent  on 
this  move,  should  have  been  perceived  with  very  slight  reflection. 

(b)  P  to  Q's  Sth  is  liei'e  better  play. 

(c)  Correctly  played,  but  the  Game  was  deservedly  lost  after  White's 
seventh  move. 

GAME  VII. 

Between  Morphy  and  Lowenthal. 
philidoe's  defence. 


BLACK.     Mr.  L. 

P  to  K's  4th 


2.  K  Kt  to  B's  3rd 
8.  P  to  Q's  4th 
4  Q  takes  Q's  2nd  P 
6.  Q  Kt  to  B's  8rd 

6.  Q  tx)  BK's  3rd 

7.  Q  R  to  Q's  sq 

8.  K  B  to  K's  2nd 

9.  Q  to  Q's  2nd 

10.  Castles 

11.  PtoQR'sSrd 

12.  K  Kt  to  Q's  4th 

13.  K  Kt  takes  B 
14  P  to  K  B's  4th 

15.  K  B  to  K's  Srd  ? 

16.  Q  to  K's  2nd 

17.  P  to  K  R's  4th  (6) 
IS.  K  B  to  Kt's  4th 

19.  Q  takes  Q  Kt 

20.  P  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

21.  K  R  to  B's  i>nd 
2-2.  Q  R  to  K  B's  sq  (d) 
23.  R  P  takes  P 
24  Q  Kt  to  R's  4th 

,  25.  P  to  Q  Kt's  Srd 
'  26.  B  to  Q  R's  7th 

27.  K  R  to  K's  2nd 

28.  B  to  K  B's  2nd  (e) 
'i9,  Kt  P  takes  Kt 

80.  Q  takes  K  R 

81.  K  R  takes  K  P 
32.  K  to  R's  2nd 


WHITE.      Mr.  M. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  P  to  Q's  3rd 


8.  K  P  takes  P 
4  Q  B  to  K's  3rd 
,     .    -,  5.  P  to  Q  R's  Srd 

*5  •  '^   >    '^  ^  *         6.  K  Kt  to  B's  Srd 

7.  K  B  to  K's  '2nd 

8.  Q  Kt  to  B's  Srd 

9.  Castles 

10.  P  to  Q  Kt's  4th 

11.  Q  Ktto  K's  4th 

12.  P  to  Q  B's  4th  (a) 

13.  B  P  takes  Kt 

14.  Q  Kt  to  Kt's  Srd 

15.  Q  R  to  Kt's  sq 

16.  Q  to  Q  B's  2nd 

17.  Kt  takes  K  R  P 

18.  K  Kt  takes  B 

19.  Q  to  Q  B's  sq  (c) 

20.  Q  Kt  to  Kt's  Srd 

21.  K  R  to  B's  3rd 

22.  P  to  Q  Kt's  Sth 

23.  B  P  takes  P 
24  Q  to  Q  B's  3rd 

25.  Q  takes  K  P 

26.  Q  R  to  K  B's  sq 

27.  Q  to  Q  Kt's  2nd 

28.  Kt  takes  K  B  P 

29.  R  to  K  Kt's  Srd 

80.  R  P  takes  Q 

81.  R  takes  B  2nd  P 
32.  Q  to  Q's  4th,  and 

Mr.  Morphy  wins. 

(a)  All  the  openings  are  played  with  the  greatest  boldness  and  self-reli- 
ance by  Mr.  Morphy. 

(b)  Up  to  this  point  Herr  L.  has  preserved  his  advantage,  and  had  only 
now  to  play  17.  P  to  K  Kt's  4th,  to  improve  his  situation  so  much  as  to  give 
promise  of  victory.  By  the  move  made,  under  some  hallucination,  he  at 
once  throws  the  game  into  his  opponent's  hands. 


MORPHY  S    GAMES    OF    CHESS. 


21 


GAME   VIII. 

Between  Morphy  and  Lowentlial. 
philidob's  defence. 
WHITE.    Mr.  M.  BLACK.    Mr.  L. 


1.  p.  to  K's  4th. 

2.  Kt.  to  K  B.  3rd. 
8.  P.  to  Q.'s  4th. 

4.  Q.  takes  P. 

5.  Q.  B.  to  K.'s  3rd. 

6.  Q.  Kt.  to  B.'s  3rd. 

7.  K.  B.  to  Q.  B.'s  4th. 

8.  Q.  to  Q.'s  2nd. 

9.  Kt.  takes  Kt. 

10.  Castles  K.  E. 

11.  P.toK.  B.'s4th. 

12.  P.  to  K.  B.'s  5th.  (&) 

13.  Q.  to  K.'s  2nd. 

14.  Q.  E.  to  Q.'s  sq. 

15.  K.  B.  to  Q.'s  5th. 

16.  Kt.  takes  B. 

17.  E.  takes  Kt 

18.  Q.  to  K.  Kt's  4th. 

19.  E.  to  Q.'s  3rd. 

20.  Q.  to  K.  Kt.'s  3rd. 

21.  K.  E.  to  Q.'s  sq. 

22.  E.  takes  E. 

23.  B.  takes  B. 

24.  Q.  to  K.  B.'s  2nd. 

25.  K.  takes  Q. 

26.  P.  takes  E. 

27.  P.  to  K.  Kt.'s  4th. 
2S.  P.  to  Q.  E.'s  4th. 

29.  K.  to  K.  Kt.'s  3rd. 

30.  K.  to  E.'s  4th. 

31.  K.  to  E.'s  5th. 

32.  P.  to  Q.  Kt's  3rd. 

33.  K.  to  Kt's  6th. 
84.  P.  to  K.  E.'s  3rd. 
35.  P.toK.  E.'s  4th. 
86.  P.  to  K.  Kt's  5th. 

37.  P.  takes  B. 

38.  K.  takes  P. 

39.  K.  to  E.'s  4th. 

40.  K.  to  Kt.'s  4th. 

41.  K.  to  E.'s  4th. 

42.  K.  to  E.'s  4th. 

43.  P.  to  E.'s  5th. 

44.  P.  takes  P. 

46.  K.  to  Kt's  4th. 

46.  P.  takes  P. 

47.  K.  to  B.'s  3rd. 

48.  K.  to  B.'s  2nd. 

49.  K.  to  Kt.'s  3rd. 
60.  K  to  B  's  2nd. 
51.  K  to  Kt's  sq.  (/) 


1.  P.  to  K.'s  4th. 

2.  P.  to  Q.'s  3rd. 
8.  P.  takes  P. 

4.  Q.  B.  to  Q.'s  2nd. 

5.  K.  Kt  to  B.'s  8rd. 

6.  K.  B.  to  K.'s  2nd. 

7.  Q.  Kt.  to  B.'s  3rd. 

8.  Q.  Kt.  K's  4th. 

9.  P.  takes  Kt 

10.  Castles. 

11.  K  B.  to  Q.'8  Srd.  (a) 

12.  Q.  B.  to  Q.  B.'s  3rd. 

13.  P.  to  K.  E.'s  3rd.  (c) 

14.  Q.  to  K.'s  2nd. 

15.  B.  takes  B. 

16.  Kt  takes  Kt. 

17.  P.  to  K.  B.'s  3rd. 

18.  P.  toQ.  B.'s  Srd. 

19.  B.  to  Q.  B.'s  4th. 

20.  Q.  E.  to  Q.'s  sq. 

21.  E.  takes  E, 

22.  E.  to  Q.'s  sq. 

23.  Q.  takes  B.  (ch.) 

24.  Q.  takes  Q.  (ch.) 

25.  E.  takes  E. 

26.  P.  to  Q.  B.'s  4th.  (d) 

27.  K.  to  B.'s  sq. 

28.  P.  to  Q.  Kt's  3rd,! 

29.  K.  to  B.'s  2nd. 

80.  K.  to  B.'s  sq. 

81.  K.  to  B.'s  2nd- 

82.  K.  to  B.'s  sq. 

83.  K.  to  Kt's  sq. 

84.  K.  to  B.'s  sq. 
35.  K.  to  Kt.'s  sq. 
86.  E.  P.  takes  P. 
37.  P.  takes  P. 

88.  K.  to  B.'s  2nd. 

89.  K.  to  K.'s  2nd. 

40.  K.  to  B.'s  Srd. 

41.  P.  to  Q.  E.'s  Srd. 

42.  P.  to  K.  Kt's  3rd. 

43.  P.  takes  E.  P. 

44.  K.  takes  P. 

45.  P.  to  E.'s  5th. 
46  P.  to  E.'s  4th. 

47.  K.  to  B.'s  Srd. 

48.  K.  to  B.'s  2nd. 

49.  K.  to  Kt.'s  2nd.  (e) 

50.  K  to  B.'s  Srd. 

51.  E.  to  Kt's  4th. 


22 


MORPHY  S    GAMES    OF    CHESS. 


52. 

K. 

to  Kt.'s  2nd. 

53. 

K. 

toB.' 

's  2nd. 

f)4. 

P. 

takes 

P. 

55. 

K. 

to  K.' 

•s  2nd 

56. 

K. 

to  B." 

s  3rd. 

57. 

K. 

to  K.' 

's  4th. 

58. 

K. 

takes  P. 

59. 

K.  to  Q.'i 

s4tb. 

52.  K.  to  B.'s  5th. 

53.  P.  to  Q.  B.'s  5th.  (g) 

54.  K.  takes  P. 

55.  K.  to  Q.'s  5th. 

56.  K.  takes  P. 

57.  K.  to  Kt.'s  5th. 

58.  K.  takes  P. 

59.  K.  to  Kt.'s  5th. 

And  wins. 
(a)  "Wliitc  might  have  taken  P  with  B  safely, 
(i)  Properly  played,  and  very  constraining  to  "White's  game. 

(c)  To  have  taken  K  P  with  Kt  or  B  would  have  enabled  Black  to  obtain 
an  attack  by  pushing  on  his  P  to  K  B's  6th,  or  by  lodging  his  Q  at  K  Kt's 
4th  or  K  E's  5th. 

(d)  The  correct  move. 

(e)  To  have  played  the  K  otherwise  would  have  lost  the  opposition  and 
the  game. 

(/)  This  heedless  attempt  to  lure  White's  K  forward  costs  Black  an  easi- 
ly and  obviously  drawn  game. 

(g)  This  move  Mi*.  Morphy  overlooked  when  he  played  his  K  to  the  Kt'a 
square. 


GAME   IX. 

Between  Morphy  and  Lowenthal. 


GIUOOO    PIANO. 


WHITE.    Mr.  L. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 
8.  B  to  Q  Kt's  5th 

4.  P  to  Q  B's  3rd 

5.  Castles 

6.  P  to  Q's  4th 

7.  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

8.  Kt  to  Q  B's  4th 

9.  Kt  to  K's  3rd 

10.  Kt  to  K.  B's  5th 

11.  B  to  Q's  8rd 

12.  Kt  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

13.  P  to  Q  Pw's  4th 

14.  P  to  Q  Pv's  5  th 

15.  P  to  K  K's  3rd 

16.  Q  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

17.  K  E  to  K'ssq 

18.  Q  to  Q  B's  2nd 

19.  P  to  Q  Kt's  4th 

20.  P  to  Q  B's  4th 

21.  B  to  K's  3rd 

22.  P  to  Q's  5th 

23.  Q  R  to  Q's  sq 

24.  K  to  R's  sq 

25.  K  P  takes  P  (b) 

26.  B  to  Q  B's  sq  (c) 

27.  B  to  Q  Kt's  2nd  (d) 

28.  Q  to  Q  B's  3rd 

29.  B  to  Q  Kt's  sq 
80.  E  to  Q's  2nd 


BLACK.      Mr.  M. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

3.  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

4.  Q  to  K's  2nd 

5.  P  to  K  B's  3rd  (a) 

6.  B  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

7.  Kt  to  Q's  !^q 

8.  Kt  to  K  B's  2nd 

9.  P  to  Q  B's  3rd 

10.  Q  to  K  B's  sq 

11.  P  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

12.  P  to  Q's  8rd 

13.  B  to  K  Kt's  5th 

14.  B  to  Q  B's  2nd 

15.  B  to  Q's  2nd 
16  KttoQ'ssq 

17.  B  to  K's  3rd 

18.  Kt  to  K's  2nd 

19.  Q  to  K  Kt's  2nd 

20.  Kt  to  B's  2nd 

21.  Castles  KE 

22.  B  to  Q's  ^?nd 

23.  K  to  R's  sq 

24.  Q  B  P  takes  Q  P 

25.  P  to  K  B's  4th 

26.  Q  R  to  K's  sq 

27.  Kt  to  K  Kt's  sq 

28.  Kt  to  K  B's  Srd 

29.  E  to  K  Kt's  sq 

30.  Q  to  K  E's  Srd 


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23 


81.  Kt  to  K  R's  2nfl 

82.  Kt  to  K's  4th 

83.  B  takes  Kt 
34.  P  to  K  B's  3rd 

85.  R  to  K  B"s  sq 

86.  R  to  K's  2nd 
37.  B  takes  Kt 
88.  P  to  Q  B's  5th 

39.  K  R  to  K's  sq 

40.  P  to  Q  Kt's  5th 

41.  Q  to  R's  3rd 

42.  P  to  Q  Kt's  6th 

43.  B  P  takes  R  P 

44.  R  to  Q  B's  sq  (g) 

45.  B  takes  R 

46.  Q  to  Kt's  4th 

47.  R  to  K's  sq 

48.  B  to  K  Kt's  2nd 

49.  Kt  to  Kt's  4th 

50.  Kt  to  B's  2nd 

51.  Q  to  B's  Srd 

52.  B  P  takes  P 

53.  P  takes  P 

54.  Kt  takes  B 

55.  R  to  Q  B's  sq 

56.  Q  to  K  R's  3rd  (h) 

57.  P  takes  Q 

58.  R  to  K  B's  sq 

59.  B  to  Q's  4th 

60.  B  to  K's  3rd 

61.  B  to  Q"s  2nd 

62.  P  to  K  R's  4th 

63.  K  to  K  R's  2nd 

64.  K  t«  K  Kt's  Srd 

65.  K  to  Kt's  2nd 

66.  B  to  K's  sq 

67.  K  to  Kt's  Srd 

Resigns. 

(a)  This  move,  lately  adopted  at  the  suggestion  of  Mr.  Bodon,  seems  to 
us  only  to  give  the  second  player  a  more  cramped  position  than  any  other 
defence,  and  we  cannot,  therefore,  recommend  it 

(&)  Better  than  taking  with  Q  B  P,  as  Black  might  then  have  advan- 
tageously played  Q  R  to  Q  B's  sq. 

(c)  Tliis  was  the  correct  move ;  it  effectually  checked  the  threatened 
advance  of  the  King's  Pawn. 

((?)  This  Bishop  now  occupies  a  most  commanding  position. 

(e)  The  proper  reply  ;■  had  Mr.  Morphy  selected  any  other  move,  White 
•would  have  taken  Q  P  with  Pawn,  following  with  R  takes  K  P,  and  have 
■won  without  difficulty. 

(/)  "With  the  view  of  releasing  the  King  from  a  position  when  he  is  so 
thorouffhly  commanded. 

(j7)  White  had  so  fine  a  game  through  the  advanced  position  of  the  two 
Pawns,  that  with  ordinary  care  and  jiidgment  he  ought  to  have  made  the 
victory  his  own.  The  move  in  the  text  is  weak ;  P  to  Q  R's  6th  would 
have  been  far  more  effective,  and  caused  Black  much  embarrassment,  e.  g. : 

44.  P  to  Q  R's  6th  44.  B  takes  P  (or  A) 

45.  P  takes  P  45.  R  to  Q  Kt's  sq 

46.  Q  to  Q  R's  6th  46.  B  to  Q's  5th  (best) 

(If  B  to  B's  4th  or  Q,  "White  takes  K  P  with  Book.) 

47.  B  to  B's  Srd,  -with  a  fine  game. 


81.  P  to  K  B's  5th 
32.  Kt  takes  Kt 

83.  P  to  K  Kt's  4fh 

84.  Q  to  K  R's  5th 

35.  Kt  to  K  R's  Srd 

36.  Kt  to  K  B's  4th 

87.  B  takes  B 

88.  Q  to  R's  3rd 

89.  K  R  to  K  B's  sq  (/) 

40.  Q  R  to  Q  B's  sq 

41.  K  to  Kt's  sq 

42.  Q  R  P  takes  P 

43.  B  to  Q's  sq 
44  R  takes  R 

45.  Q  to  K  Kt's  Srd 

46.  B  to  Q's  6th 

47.  B  to  K's  2nd 

48.  R  to  K's  sq 

49.  P  to  K  R's  4th 

50.  P  to  K  Kt's  5th 

51.  B  to  K  B's  4th 

52.  P  takes  P 

53.  B  takes  P 

54.  Q  takes  Kt 

55.  K  to  B's  2nd 

56.  Q  takes  Q 

57.  P  to  K  B's  6th 

58.  P  to  K's  5th 

59.  B  to  K  B's  Srd 

60.  R  to  Q  R's  sq 

61.  B  to  Q's  5th 

62.  K  to  K  Kt's  Srd 

63.  R  to  K  B's  sq 

64.  P  to  K  B's  7th 

65.  P  to  K's  6ih 

66.  K  to  K  R's  4th 

67.  P  takes  B  Q  (ch,) 


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MORPHYS    GAMES    OF    CHESS. 


(A) 


44.  P takes? 

45.  E  to  Kt'8  eq 


45.  P  to  Kt's  Tth 

46.  Q  takes  P,  with  an  excellent 

position, 
(h)  A  grievous  error :  had  the  exchange  of  Queens  been  challenged  at 
K  B's  3rd,  no  play  could  have  saved  Black's  game. 


GAME   X. 

Between  Morphy  and  Lowenthal. 

FEENOH   OPENING. 


1. 


BLACK.     Mr.  M. 
P.  to  K.'s  4th. 
P.  to  Q.'s  4th. 
P.  takes  P. 
Kt.  to  K.  B.'s  8rd. 
B.  to  Q.'s  3rd, 
Castles. 

Q.  Kt.  to  Q.  B.'s  3rd. 
Q.  B.  to  K.  Kt.'s  5th. 
B.  to  K.  E.'s  4th. 
P.  to  K.  K.'s  3rd. 
Q.  takes  B. 
K  B.  to  K.  B.'s  5th. 

13.  Q.  R.  to  K.'s  sq. 

14.  R.  to  K.'s  3rd,  (ch.)  (h) 

15.  R.  to  K.'s  2nd. 

16.  Kt  takes  R.  ' 

17.  K,  B.  takes  Kt. 

18.  Kt.  to  K,  Kt.'s  3rd.  (c) 

19.  Kt,  to  B,'s  5th. 

20.  B.  to  K.  Kt.'s  8rd.  (e) 

21.  B.  P.  takes  B. 

22.  P,  to  Q.  B.'s  3rd. 

23.  P.  to  K,  R.'s  4th. 

24.  P.  to  Q.  B.'s  4th,  (/) 

25.  Kt.  takes  Kt,  P. 

26.  Kt  takes  P. 

27.  Kt  to  B.'s  6th. 

28.  Q.  takes  Kt 

29.  R.  to  B.'s  5th. 

30.  R.  to  K.'s  5th. 

81.  R.  to  K.'s  7th, 

82.  Q,  to  K.'s  5th. 

83.  R.  to  K.'s  8th.  (ch.) 

84.  Q.  to  K  R,'s  5th,  wins, 

(a)  Preference  has  been  given  by  some  here  to  P,  to  K.  R.'s  3rd,  but  no 
disadvantage  seems  attendant  on  the  move  adopted  in  the  text. 
(&)  A  lost  move,  as  is  proved  by  the  subsequent  play. 

(c)  This  was  well  conceived,  with  the  view  of  planting  Kt  at  K.  B.'s  5th, 
where  its  position  promised  to  be  a  strong  one. 

(d)  White  dare  not  venture  to  gain  the  Bishop  by  P.  to  Kt's  4th,  on 
account  of  Black's  playing  Kt,  to  K.  B.'s  5th ;  this  move  was  well  taken, 
■s  it  secured  a  free  range  for  the  Book. 


WHITE.    Mr.  L. 

1.  p.  to  K.'s  3rd. 

2.  P.  to  Q,'s  4th. 

3.  P.  takes  P, 

4.  Kt.  to  K.  B.'s  Srd. 

5.  B.  to  Q.'8  3rd. 

6.  Castles. 

7.  P.  to  Q.  B.'s  Srd.  (a) 

8.  P,  to  K.  R.'s  3rd. 

9.  Q.  B.  to  K,  Kt's  5th. 

10.  B.  takes  Kt 

11.  Q,  Kt  to  Q.'s  2nd. 

12.  Q.  to  B.'s  2nd, 

13.  Q.  R.  to  K.'s  sq. 

14.  B.  to  K.  B.'s  5th. 

15.  R.  takes  R. 

16.  B.  to  Q.'s  Srd, 

17.  Kt.  takes  B. 

18.  R.  to  K.'s  sq.  (d) 

19.  Kt  to  K.  B.'s  sq. 

20.  B,  takes  B. 

21.  R.  to  K.'s  5th, 

22.  Kt  to  R.'s  2nd. 

23.  P.  to  K.  R.'s  4th, 

24.  Kt  to  K.  B.'s  Srd.  (ff) 

25.  Kt  to  Kt,'s  5th. 

26.  E,  takes  P, 

27.  Kt  takes  Kt. 

28.  R.  takes  P.  (h) 

29.  R.  to  K.  Kt's  5th. 

80.  Q,  to  Q  B.'s  sq, 

81.  Q,  to  K.  B.'s  sq. 

82.  Q.  to  Kt's  2nd.  (i) 

83.  K.  to  E.'s  2nd. 


morphy's  games  of  chess. 


25 


(e)  "Well  played. 

(/)  The  game  at  this  point  is  an  even  one,  though  extremely  diflBcnlt  for 
both  players  ;  with  correct  play,  it  woxild  probably  have  ended  in  a  draw. 

(g)  A"sad  and  unaccountable  oversight,  losing  at  once  a  pawn  and  the 
game. 

(h)  E.  to  K.  K.  Kfs  5th  would  perhaps  have  proved  better,  but  the  game 
was  altogether  beyond  recovery. 

(i)  Had  White  played  E.  to  K.'s  5th,  Black  must  have  won  through  his 
Pawns. 


GAME    XI. 

Between  Morphy  and  Lowenthal. 

SICILIAN  DEFENCE. 


WHITE.     Mr.  L. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  Kt  to  K  B"s  3rd 

3.  P  to  Q's  4th 

4.  Kt  takes  P 

5.  Kt  to  Q  Kt's  5th 

6.  Kt  to  Q's  6th  (eh.) 

7.  Q  takes  B 

8.  Q  to  K  Kt's  3rd  (a) 

9.  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

10.  P  to  K's  5th 

11.  Q  to  K  B's  3rd 

12.  P  to  K  Kt's  4th 

13.  Q  to  K's  2nd 

14.  Q  takes  Kt 

15.  Q  to  Q  E's  4th  (ch.) 

16.  Q  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

17.  Q  takes  Q  Kt  P 
IS.  Kt  to  Q's  5th 

19.  B  to  K  Kt's  2nd  («) 

20.  P  to  Q  B"s  4th 

21.  Q  to  Q  Kt's  4th 

22.  Q  to  K's  7th 

23.  Q  to  Q  B"s  7th 

24.  Q  takes  Q 

25.  Kt  to  Kt's  6th  (g) 
2(1.  P  to  Q  B's  5th 

27.  P  to  Q  Kt's  4th 

28.  Castles 

29   K  E  to  Q's  sq 
30.  B  lakes  K  Kt  P 
81.  P  t!.  K  E's  4th 


32. 

E  takes  P 

33. 

Kc  to  Q's  7th 

34. 

P  takers  E 

85. 

K  to  E's  2nd 

86. 

B  to  K  B's  sq 

37. 

KtoKcsHvd 

3S. 

P  to  K  l-Vs  4th 

39. 

Kt  to  K's  5th  (ch) 

40. 

Kt  takes  P 

41. 

Q  E  to  K's  sq 

88. 


BLACK.      Mr.  M. 

P  to  Q  B's  4th 

P  to  K's  3rd 

P  takes  P 

Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

P  to  Q  E's  3rd 

B  takes  Kt 

Q  to  K's  2nd 

Kt  to  K  B's  3rd  (&) 

P  to  Q's  4th 

Kt  to  K  E's  4th 

P  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

Kt  takes  K  P  (c) 

Kt  takes  P  {d) 

P  to  K's  4th 

B  to  Q's  2nd 

P  to  Q's  5th 

Castles 

Q  to  Q's  3rd 

P  to  K's  5th  (/) 

P  to  K  B's  4th 

Q  to  K's  4th 

B  to  K's  3rd 

Q  to  K  Kt's  2nd 

Kt  takes  Q 

Q  E  to  Q  Kt's  sq 

Kt  to  K  E's  4th 

K  to  B's  2nd 

P  to  K  Kt's  4th 

K  E  to  Q's  sq  {h) 

E  to  K  Kt's  sq 

E  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

K  E  to  K  Kt's  sq  (i) 

E  takes  B 

E  takes  P 

Kt  to  K  B's  5th 

E  to  E's  4th  (ch.) 

Kt  to  Q's  4th 

P  takes  P  671  pas 

K  to  B's  3rd 

E  to  E's  3rd 

E  to  Kt's  3rd  (ch.) 


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MORPHY  S  QAME8  OF  CHESS. 


42.  K  to  B's  2nd 

43.  B  to  Q's  3rd 

44.  B  takes  P 

45.  K  E  to  K  B's  4th 

46.  E  takes  B. 


42.  Kt  to  Q  B's  6th 

43.  B  to  Q's  4th 

44.  E  to  Kt's  2nd 

45.  B  takes  Kt 
Eesitrns. 


(a)  P  to  K's  5th  is  also  a  good  move  here,  and  gives  Blaclc  a  very  con- 
strained position. 

(&)  Tlie  natural  move,  but,  as  the  result  proved,  anything  but  advisable. 

(c)  Tliis  was  a  hazardous  sacrifice,  but  Mr.  Morpliy  preferred  making 
it  before  incurring  the  cramped  game  that  he  would  have  had  if  Kt  had 
retreated  to  Kt's  2nd. 

{di  As  the  piece  was  irretrievably  lost,  Mr.  Morphy  chose  the  wisest 
course  in  capturing  the  second  Pawn. 

(e)  This  was  the  proper  move. 

(/)  The  correct  reply,  threatening  to  win  the  piece  if  the  Pawn  were 
taken. 

((/)  Better  tlian  playing  to  Q  B's  7th. 

(A)  Q  E  to  Q's  sq.  instead  would  have  been  preferable. 

(/)  Had  Black  played  E  to  Q  Kt's  2nd,  the  following  variation  would 
probably  have  arisen.    Thus: 


32.  Q  E  to  Q  Kt's  2nd 

33.  Kt  to  B's  4th 

33.  B  takes  Kt 

34.  E  takes  B 

34.  P  to  K  E's  8rd 

35.  B  to  Q's  2nd 

35.  E  to  Q's  2nd 

36.  P  to  B's  6tli 

3G.  E  takes  B 

87.  P  to  B's  7th 

37.  P  to  K's  6th 

38.  P  Queens 

38.  P  takes  P  (ch.) 

39.  K  to  E's  sq  (best)  (or  A) 

39.  K  to  E's  2nd 

40.  K  to  K's  sq  (best) 

41.  K  to  Kt's  sq 

42.  K.  to  B's  2nd,  and  wins. 

40.  K  to  E's  2nd 

41.  K  to  E's  3rd,  winning. 


(A) 


39.  P   to   B's  Sth,  becoming  a 

Kt  (ch.) 

40.  Kt    from    B's    Sth    to   Kt's 

6th  (ch.) 

41.  Kt  to  K's  7th  (ch.) 

89.  KttoKt's6th(cb.) 
40.  P.  to  B's  Sth,  becoming  a 
Kt  (ch.) 


GAME    XII. 

Between  Morphy  and  Lowenthal. 


FEENOH   OPENING. 


"VTHITE.      Mr.  M. 

1.  P.  to  K.'s  4th. 

2.  P.  to  Q.'s  4th. 
8.  P.  takes  P. 

4.  Kt.  to  K.  B.'s  8rd. 

5.  K.  B.  to  Q.'s  3rd. 

6.  Castles. 

T.  Q.  Kt.  to  B.'s  3rd. 

8.  K.  Kt.  to  K.  5th. 

9.  P.  to  K.  B.'s  4th. 


BLACK.     Mr.  L. 

1.  P.  to  K.'s  3rd. 

2.  P.  toQ.'s4th. 
8.  P.  takes  P. 

4.  Kt.  to  K.  B.'s  3rd. 

5.  Q.  B.  to  K.'s  3rd.  (a) 

6.  K  B.  to  Q.'s  3rd. 

7.  P.  to  Q.  B.'s  3rd. 

8.  Q.  Kt.  to  Q.'s2nd. 

9.  Q.  to  Q.  Kt.'s  Sri 


MORPHT  S  GAMES  OF  CHESS. 


27 


10.  Q.  B.  to  K's  3rd. 

11.  K.  B.'sP.  takes  B. 

12.  Q.  to  Q;.s  2(1. 

13.  Q.  takes  Kt. 

14.  Kt.  to  K.'s  2n(l. 

15.  Kt.  to  K.  B.'s  4th.  (c) 

16.  Q.  R.  to  Q.  Kt.'s  sq. 

17.  K.  B.  toK.'s2nd. 

18.  Q.  to  Q  Kt.'s  3rd. 

19.  Kt.  to  Q."s  3rd. 

20.  Kt.  to  Q.  B.'s  5th. 

21.  Q.  to  R.-s  4th.  {g) 

22.  B.  takes  Kt. 

23.  B.  to  R.'s  6th.  (ch.) 

24.  B.  to  Kt's  7.  (i) 

25.  B.  takes  Q.  B/s  P.  (ch.) 

And  Mr.  L.  abandoned  the  game,  seeing 


K.  B.  takes  Kt 

K.  Kt.  to  Kt.'s  5th. 

Kt.  tiikes  Q.  B. 

Q.  takes  Q.  Kt.'s  P.  (5) 

Q.  to  Q.  R.'s  6th. 

Q.  to  K.'s  2nd. 

Castles  Q.'s  R.  {d) 

Kt,  to  Q.  Kt's  3rd. 

Q.  R.  to  Q.'s  2nd. 

Kt.  to  Q.  B.'s  5th.  {e) 

R.  to  Q.  B.'s  2nd.  (/) 

P.  to  Q  Kt's  3rd. 

P.  takes  Kt.  (/i) 

K.  to  Q.'s  2nd. 

K.  E,  to  Q.'s  sq.  {h) 


that  the  Q.,  at  least,  is  lost 


(rr)  Not  so  good  as  K.  B.  to  Q.'s  3rd  at  this  juncture. 

(&)  Very  dangerous  play,  as  it  must,  at  least  lose  a  great  deal  of  time; 
the  move  lost  being  more  valuable  than  the  Pawn  gained. 

(c)  Threatening  to  take  the  B.,  and  then  win  the  Q.  by  playing  out  tho 
K.  B.  with  check. 

{d)  Better  to  have  moved  the  P.  to  Q.  Kt's  3rd. 

(e)  This  is  not  a  good  move. 

(/)  To  have  played  the  Kt  to  Q.'s  7th  would  have  been  useless,  as  "White 
would,  in  reply,  move  Q.  to  R.'s  4th  ;  and,  if  Kt  then  t.ikc  R.,  White  takes 
E.  P.  with  Q.,'and  will  either  mate  or  win  back  a  Rook  with  an  irresistible 
position. 

{g)  Better  first  to  have  taken  Kt.  with  B.,  as  Black  could  not  then  have 
played  next  time  his  P.  to  Q.  Kt.'s  3rd  without  the  R.'s  taking  it  at  once. 

(h)  If  Black  here  take  B.  with  P.,  White  would  have  decidedly  the 
best  of  the  battle  by  taking  the  Q.  Kt's  P.  with  R. 

{i)  Very  correctly  played,  as  usual. 

(Jc)  Suicide.    Q.  to  K.'R.'s  5tli  would  have  much  prolonged  the  game. 


GAME    XIII. 

Between  Morphy  and  Lowenthal. 
peteoff's  defence. 


WHITE.    Mr.  L. 

1.  P  to  K's  4 

2.  K  to  K  B's  3rd 

3.  Kt  takes  P 

4.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

5.  P  to  Q's  4th 

6.  K  B  to  Q's  3rd 

7.  Castles 

8.  P  to  Q  B's  4th 

9.  P  takes  P 

10.  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

11.  P  takes  Kt 

12.  Q  E  to  K  B's  4tb 

13.  B  takes  B 

14.  Kt  to  Kt's  5th 

15.  P  to  Q  B's  4th  (a) 


BLACK.      Mr.  M. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

8.  P  to  Q's  3rd 

4.  Kt  takes  P 

5.  P  to  Q's  4th 

6.  K  B  to  K's  2nd 

7.  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 
8   Q  B  to  K's  3rd 

9.  Q  B  takes  P 

10.  Kt  takes  Kt 

11.  Castles 

12.  K  B  to  Q's  3rd 
18.  Q  takes  B 

14.  P  to  K  B's  4th 

15.  B  takes  K  Kt's  P 


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MORPHY  S    GAMES    OF    CHESS. 


K  takes  B 
P  to  K  B's  4th 
P  to  Q's  5th 
P  to  K  E's  4th 
K  R  P  takes  P 
Q  to  K  B's  3rd 

22.  Q  to  Kt's  3rd 

23.  P  to  Q  B's  5th 

24.  K  B  to  B's  4th 

25.  B  to  Kfs  3rd 

26.  Q  E  to  K's  sq 

27.  Q  E  to  K's  6th 
23.  P  takes  E 

29.  P  takes  Kt 

30.  E  to  Q's  sq 

31.  B  takes  E 
82.  B  to  B's  3rd 

33.  P  to  K  Kt's  6th 

34.  Q  to  K's  5th 

35.  K  to  E's  3rd 
86.  Q  to  E's  5th 

37.  Q  to  E's  4tli  (ch.) 

38.  K  to  Kfs  3rd 

39.  Q  to  K  E's  Sth  (cf) 

40.  K  to  B's  2nd 


16.  QtoKKt'sSrd 

17.  P  to  K  E's  3d 

18.  Kt  to  Q's  sq 

19.  P  takes  Kt 

20.  Kt  to  K  B's  2nd 

21.  KttoE's3rd(&) 

22.  Kt  to  B's  2nd 

23.  Q  E  to  Q's  sq 

24.  P  to  Q  Kt's  4th 

25.  P  to  Q  E's  4th 

26.  K  E  to  K's  sq 

27.  E  takes  E  (c) 

28.  K  t.)  B's  sq 

29.  P  to  E's  5th 
80.  E  takes  E 

31.  Q  to  Q  B's  3rd  (ch.) 

82.  Q  takes  B  P 

83.  Q  to  Q's  3rd 

34.  Q  to  Q's  7th  (ch.) 

35.  Q  to  Q's  6th 

36.  K  to  K's  2nd 

37.  K  to  Q's  2nd 

38.  Q  to  Q's  8rd 

39.  Q  takes  P  (ch.) 

40.  Q  takes  B  P. 
Drawn  game. 


(a)  From  this  point  Mr.  Lowenthal  plays  extremely  well  np  to  move  38. 

lb)  This  loses  Mi-.  Morphy  two  moves,  and  in  consequence  he  gets  a  lost' 
game. 

(c)  There  is  nothing  better  for  him  to  do. 

{d)  Once  more  does  Mr.  L.  make  one  of  those  unaccountable  mistakes 
which  characterize  his  match  play.  Q  to  Kt's  4th  must  have  won  the  game 
in  a  few  moves. 


GAME     XIV. 

Between  Morphy  and  Lo"^entlial. 

EUY  ROPEZ  knight's  GAME. 


WHITE,     Mr.  M. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

3.  B  to  Q  Kt's  5th 

4.  B  to  E's  4th 

5.  P  to  Q's  4th 

6.  P  to  K's  5th 

7.  Castles 

8.  K  B  takes  Kt 

9.  Kt  takes  P 

10.  Kt  takes  Kt 

11.  Q  to  K's  2nd 

12.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

13.  Kt  to  K's  4th  (c) 

14.  B  to  K's  3rd 

15.  Q  takes  B 

16.  Kt  lo  Kt's  3rd  ((f) 


BLACK.     Mr.  L. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

3.  P  to  Q  E's  3rd  (a) 

4.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

5.  P  takes  Q  P 

6.  Kt  to  K's  Sth 

7.  K  Kt  to  Q  B's  4th  (&) 

8.  Q  P  takes  B 

9.  Kt  to  K's  3rd 

10.  B  takes  Kt 

11.  K  B  to  B's  4th 

12.  Q.  to  K's  2nd 

13.  P  to  K  E's  3rd 
14  B  takes  B 

15.  B  to  K  B's  4th 

16.  B  takes  Q  B  P 


MORPHY  S    GAMES    OF    CHESS. 


29 


17.  P  to  K  B's  4th 

18.  P  to  K's  6th  (e) 

19.  Kt  takes  B 

20.  P  takes  P  (ch) 

21.  Q  to  K  R-s  3rd 

22.  Q  R  to  K's  sq 

23.  R  to  K's  5th 

24.  K  R  to  K's  sq 

25.  R  takes  R 

26.  Q  to  K  Kt's  Srd  (ch.) 

27.  P  to  K  R-s  3rd 
23.  Q  to  K"s  3rd 
29.  K  to  R's  2nd 

80.  Q  to  K's  2nd 

81.  R  to  K's  6tli 

8-2.  Q  to  K  R"s  5th  (gr) 

33.  P  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

84.  R  takes  Q  R  P 

85.  Q  takes  B  P  (ch.) 

86.  Q  takes  Q  fob.) 

87.  RtoQR's'5th 

88.  P  to  K  Kt's  4th 


17.  PtoKKt'sSrd 

18.  B  to  K  B's  4th 

19.  P  takes  Kt 

20.  K  takes  P 

21.  Q  to  K  B's  3rd 

22.  K  R  to  K's  sq 

23.  K  to  Kt's  3rd  (/) 

24.  R  takes  R 

25.  R  to  Q's  sq 

26.  K  to  R's  2nd 

27.  R  to  Q's  2nd 

28.  P  to  Q  Kt"s  3rd 

29.  P  to  Q  B's  4th 
80.  Q  to  K  Kt's  3rd 
31.  QtoKfs2nd 

82.  R  to  Q's  4th 

83.  P  to  Q  Kt's  4th 
34  R  to  Q's  3rd 
35.  Q  to  Kt's  3rd 
86.  K  takes  Q 

37.  R  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

38.  P  to  Q  B's  3rd. 


And  after  a  good  many  more  moves,  White's  P's  on  the  K's  side  carried 
the  day. 

(a)  This  and  the  following  more  Mr.  L.  considers  to  constitute  the  only 
true  defence,  the  Ruy  Lopez  attack. 

(b)  The  only  move  at  this  point  of  the  s&xne. 

(c)  Threatening  to  play  B  to  K  Kt's  5th. 

(d)  The  best  move ;  Black  loses  too  much  time  hy  taking  the  Q  B's  P. 

(e)  Admirably  played;  threatening  to  win  a  piece  by  Q  to  Q  B's  3rd. 
(/)  The  only  move. 

(g)  From  this  point  "White's  game  seems  won  by  force. 


GAME    XV. 

Bet-n^een  Morphy  and  Harr-w^itz. 


LRREGTJLAR    OPENmG-. 


BLACK.     Mr.  H. 

1.  P  to  Q's  4th 

2.  P  to  Q  B's  4th 

8.  Q  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

4.  Q  B  to  K  B's  4th  (a) 

5.  P  to  K's  3rd 

6.  K  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

7.  P  to  Q  R's  3rd 
S.  K  P  takes  P 

9.  K  B  takes  P 

10.  K  B  to  Q's  3rd 

11.  Castles 

V2.  Q  B  to  K's  5th 

13.  Q  to  K's  2nd 

14.  Q  B  to  K  Kt's  8rd 

15.  K  R  to  K's  sq 

16.  Q  to  K's  4th 

17.  Q  Kt  takes  Kt 


■WHITE.     Mr.  "M.. 

1.  P  to  K's  3rd 

2.  P  to  Q's  4th 

8.  K  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

4.  P  to  Q  R's  3rd 

5.  P  to  Q  B's  4th 

6.  Q  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

7.  Q  B  P  takes  Q  P 

8.  Q  P  takes  P 

9.  P  to  Q  Kt's  4th 

10.  Q  B  to  Q  Kt's  2nd 

11.  K  B  to  K's  2nd 

12.  Castles 

13.  K  Kt  to  Q's  4th 

14.  K  to  R's  sq 

15.  K  B  to  K  B's  8rd 

16.  P  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

17.  Q  takes  Kt 


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MORPHY  8    GAMES    OF    CHESS. 


Q  takes  Q 
Kt  to  K's  5th 
Kt  takes  Kt 
Q  R  lo  Q  ii's  sq 
Q  B  to  Q's  6th 
Q  B  to  K's  5th 
P  to  K  B's  4th 
K  to  K  B^s  2nd 
K  to  K's  3rd  {d) 
E  takes  K 
E  to  Q  B's  5th 
K  B  P  takes  B 
P  to  Q  E's  4th  {e) 
B  takes  Q  E  P 
E  to  Q  Kt's  5th 
E  to  Q  Kt's  6th 
K  to  Q's  2nd 
B  takes  B 
E  to  Q  Kt's  5th 
E  takes  Q  P 
P  takes  P 
E  to  Q  B's  5th 
K  to  K's  2nd 
P  to  Q's  5th 
E  to  Q  B's  6th 
E  to  K  B's  6th 
P  to  Q's  Cth  (ch.) 
P  to  K's  6th 
E  takes  P  (ch.) 
P  to  Q's  7th 
E  to  Q's  6th 
E  takes  P 
E  to  K  Kt's  5th 
K  to  K  B's  3rd 
K  to  K  Kt's  3rd 
K  to  K  Kt's  4th 
P  to  K  Kt's  3rd 
E  to  K  E's  5th 

And  White 


18.  P  takes  Q 

19.  Q  E  to  Q"s  sq  (6) 

20.  Q  B  takes  Kt 

21.  Q  E  to  Q  B's  sq 

22.  K  E  to  K  Kfs  sq 

23.  K  to  K  Kt's  2nd  (c) 

24.  Q  B  to  Q's  2ad 

25.  P  to  K  E's  3rd 

26.  Q  E  takes  E 

27.  E  to  Q  B's  sq 

28.  K  B  takes  B 

29.  B  to  K's  8rd 
SO.  P  takes  P 

81.  E  to  Q  Kt's  sq 

32.  E  to  Q's  sq  (/) 

33.  E  to  Q  E's  sq 

34.  B  to  Q  B's  sq 

85.  E  takes  B 

86.  E  to  Q  E's  sq 

87.  P  to  Q  E's  6th 

38.  E  takes  P 

39.  K  to  K  B's  sq 

40.  K  to  K's  2nd 

41.  K  to  Q's  2nd 

42.  P  to  K  E's  4th 
4:^.  K  to  K's  2nd 

44.  K  to  K's  sq 

45.  P  takes  P 

46.  K  to  K  B's  2nd 

47.  E  to  Q  E's  sq 

48.  K  to  K's  2nd 

49.  K  takes  P 

50.  E  to  K  E's  sq 

51.  K  to  K's  8rd 

52.  P  to  K  E's  5th  (ch.) 

53.  P  to  K  E's  6th 

54.  K  to  K  B's  3rd 


abandoned  the  game. 


(a)  A  favorite  move  of  Mr.  Harrwiiz,  though  decried  by  the  chief  au- 
thorities. 

(&)  Had  he  taken  the  Q's  Pawn,  Bhick  would  have  won  at  least  the  ex- 
change by  moving  Kt  to  Q's  7th. 

(c)  Fearing  to  "take  the  Bishop  lest  Black  should  obtain  an  entrance 
with  the  Eook. 

((/)  All  this  is  exceedingly  well  played  by  Black. 

(<?)  The  coup  juste.  From  this  point  it  would  not  be  easy  to^  improve 
on  Black's  moves.  *  ^ 

(/)  Better,  perhaps,  to  have  played  the  Eook  to  Q  E's  sq  at  once. 


morphy's  games  of  chess. 


81 


GAME    XVI. 

Between  Morphy  and  Harrwitz. 
philidoe's  defence. 


WHITE.     Mr.  M. 

BLACK.     Mr.  H, 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

2.  P  to  Q's  3rd 

3.  P  to  Q's  4th 

3.  P  takes  P 

4.  Q  takes  P 

4.  KttoQB'sSrd 

5.  KBtoQKt's5th 

5.  B  to  Q's  2nd 

6.  B  takes  Kt 

6.  B  takes  B 

7,  B  to  K  Kt's  5th 

7.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

8.  Kt  to  Q  B's  Srd 

8.  B  to  K's  2nd 

9.  Castles  (Q  E) 

•     9.  Castles 

10.  K  E  to  K's  sq 

10.  P  to  K  E's  3rd 

11.  B  to  K  E's  4th 

11.  Kt  to  K's  sq 

12.  B  takes  B 

12.  Q  takes  B 

13.  P  to  K's  5th 

13.  B  takes  Kt 

14.  P  takes  B 

14.  Q  to  K  Kt's  4th  (ch.] 

15.  K  to  Kfs  sq 

15.  P  takes  P 

16.  E  takes  P 

16.  Q  to  K  Kt's  7th 

17.  Kt  to  Q's  5th 

17.  Q  takes  K  E  P 

IS.  K  E  to  K's  sq 

18.  Q  to  Q's  Srd 

19.  E  to  K  Kt's  sq 

19.  K  to  E's  2nd 

20.  Q  to  K's  3rd 

20.  P  to  K  B's  4th 

21.  KttoKB's4th 

21.  Q  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

22.  Q  to  K's  2nd 

22.  E  to  K  B's  2nd 

23.  Q  to  Q  B's  4th 

23.  Q  to  K  B's  Srd 

24,  Kt  to  K  E's  5th 

24.  Q  to  K's  2nd 

25.  Q  E  to  K's  sq 

25.  Q  to  Q's  2nd 

26.  P  to  Q  E's  Srd 

26.  Kt  to  Q's  Srd 

27.  Q  to  Q's  4th 

27.  E  to  K  Kt's  sq 

28.  E  to  K  Kt's  2nd 

28.  Kt  to  K's  sq 

29.  Q  to  Q  B's  3rd 

29.  P  to  K  B's  5th 

30.  E  to  K  E's  sq 

30.  P  to  K  Kt's  Srd 

81.  Q  E  to  K  Kt's  sq 

31.  Q  to  Q's  4th 

32.  Q  to  K's  sq 

82.  Q  takes  Kt 

33.  E  to  K  Kt's  5th 

83.  Q  takes  K  B  P 

34.  Q  to  K's  6th 

34.  E  to  K  B's  Srd 

35.  Q  to  K's  7th  (ch.) 

35.  E  to  K  Kt's  2nd 

36.  Q  takes  Kt 

36.  P  takes  E 

37.  Q  to  K'a  sq 

37.  Q  to  Q  B's  Srd 

, 

And  wins. 

GAME     XVII. 

Between  Morphy  and  Harrwitz. 


LREE<3-ULAE   OPElSrmG. 


BLACK.     Mr.  H. 

1.  P  to  Q's  4th  (a) 

2.  P  to  Q  B's  4th 

3.  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 


WHITE.     Mr.  M. 
P  to  K  B's  4th 
P  to  K's  3rd 
Kt  to  K  B's  Srd 


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MORPHY  S  GAMES  OF  CHES3. 


4  Q  B  to  K  Kt's  5th 

5.  Q  to  Q  Kt's  Srd 

6.  P  to  Q's  5th 

7.  P  to  K's  Srd 

S.  K  B  to  Q's  3rd 
9.  K  Kt  to  K's  2nd 

10.  B  takes  Kt 

11.  P  to  Q  R's  Srd 

12.  Q  takes  B 

13.  Castles  (KK) 
14  P  to  Q  Kt's  4tb 

15.  P  to  K  B's  Srd 

16.  B  to  Q  B's  2nd 

17.  B  to  Q  E's  4th 

18.  B  takes  Kt 

19.  P  takes  P  (d) 

20.  P  to  K  B's  4th 

21.  Q  R  to  Q  Kt's  sq 

22.  K  E  to  Q  B's  sq 

23.  Kt  to  K  Kt's  Srd 

24.  Kt  to  K  B's  sq 

25.  Kt  to  Q's  2nd 

26.  R  takes  R 

27.  Q  to  Q  Kt's  Srd 

28.  Kt  takes  Q 

29.  P  takes  P 

80.  Kt  to  Q  R's  5th 

81.  Kt  to  Q  Kt's  7tb 

82.  R  to  Q  B's  Srd 

83.  Kt  to  Q's  8th 

84.  R  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

35,  E  to  Q  Kt's  8th 

36.  K  to  B's  2nd 

87.  K  to  K's  2nd 

88.  Kt  to  Q  B's  6th  (ch.) 

39.  P  takes  B 

40.  K  to  Q's  2nd 

41.  K  to  Q  B's  sq 

42.  R  to  Q  Kt's  Srd 

43.  E  to  Q  E's  Srd 

44.  P  to  K  Kt's  Srd 

45.  R  P  takes  P 

46.  Kt  P  takes  P 

47.  R  to  Q  R's  5th 

48.  R  to  Q  R's  6th 

49.  R  takes  P  (ch.) 

50.  R  to  Q's  2nd 

51.  R  to  K  Kt's  2nd  (ch.) 

52.  R  to  K  Kt's  5th 

53.  R  to  K  R's  5th 
54  E  to  K  E's  4th 


4  K  B  to  Q  Kt's  5tb 

5.  P  to  Q  B's  4th  (ft) 

6.  P  to  K's  4th 

7.  Castles 

&.  P  to  Q"s  3rd  (c) 
9.  P  to  K  R's  Srd 

10.  Q  takes  B 

11.  B  takes  Kt  (ch  ) 

12.  Q  to  K  Kt's  Srd 

13.  Kt  to  Q's  2nd 
14  P  to  Q  Kt's  Srd 

15.  P  to  K  R's  4th 

16.  B  to  Q  Kfs  2nd 

17.  Q  to  K  B's  2nd 
IS.  Q  takes  B 

19.  Kt  P  takes  P  (e) 

20.  P  to  K's  5th 

21.  B  to  Q  R's  3rd 

22.  Q  to  Q  R's  5th 

23.  P  to  K  R's  5th 
24  Q  R  to  Q  Kt's  sq 

25.  R  to  Q  Kt's  Srd  (/) 

26.  P  takes  R 

27.  Q  takes  Q 

28.  P  to  Q  Kt's  4th  (g) 

29.  B  takes  P 
80.  R  to  Q  R's  sq 
SI.  R  to  Q  R's  Srd 

32.  K  to  B's  sq 

33.  B  to  Q's  2nd 
84  K  to  K's  2nd 

85.  P  to  Q  B's  5th 

86.  P  to  Q  B's  6th 

87.  R  takes  P 

88.  B  takes  Kt 

89.  P  to  Q  B's  7th 

40.  R  to  Q  B's  6th  (7i) 

41.  R  takes  Q  B  P 

42.  K  to  B's  Srd 

43.  P  to  K  Kt's  4th 
44  R  P  takes  P 

45.  P  takes  P 

46.  K  to  Kt's  Srd 

47.  R  to  Q  B's  4th 

48.  R  to  Q  B's  6th 

49.  K  to  R's  4th 

50.  K  to  Kfs  5th 

51.  K  to  B's  6th 

52.  R  to  Q  B's  4th 

53.  K  takes  K  P 
54  K  to  B's  6th 

And  Black  resisrns. 


(a)  Mr.  Harrwitz  is  particularly  fond  of  this  opening,  and  has  adopted  it 
in  every  match  of  any  importance  in  which  he  has  been  engaged ;  in  fact,  on 
such  occasions,  he  practises  but  two  debuts — the  Queen's  Gambit  when  he 
has  the  attack,  the  Pliilidor  Defence  when  he  is  second  player.  He  is 
thoroughly  familiar  with  every  variation  in  these  two  openings,  but  it  re- 
mains to  be  seen  how  far  his  knowledge  will  avail  him  against  his  present 
antagonist 


morphy's  games  of  chess. 


33 


(&)  A  very  similar  position  occurs  in  the  Sicilian  Opening,  and  then,  as 
h«re,  this  move  is  important  and  effective. 

(c)  Thus  far  the  game  has  been  opened  on  both  sides  with  care,  judgment, 
and  accuracy. 

(c?)  The  exchange  of  Pawns  here  showed  want  of  judgment,  for  after  giv- 
ing up  his  Bishop  the  Q  B  P  was,  of  course,  rendered  very  weak  by  the  line 
of  play  adopted;  indeed,  it  was  fatal  to  his  game. 

{e)  The  prompt  advantage  which  Mr.  Morphy  takes  of  the  slightest  error 
of  his  opponent  is  the  chief  characteristic  of  his  game,  and  it  is  well  illus- 
trated on  this  occasion. 

(/)  A  very  good  move. 

Ig)  Excellently  followed  up ;  this  secures  a  free  passage  for  Q  B  P,  which 
must  soon  prove  embarrassing  to  Black. 

(/i)  "When  Mr.  H.  played,  33.  Kt  to  B's  6th  (ch,)  he  evidently  overlooked 
that  White  on  his  40th"move  could  play  E  to  Q  B's  6th.  This  at  once  gains 
Black's  advanced  Pawn. 

GAME    XVIII. 

'  Between  Morphy  and  Harrwitz. 

philidoe's  defence. 


blaob:.     Mr.  M. 

WHITE.     Mr.  H 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

2.  P  to  Q's  8rd 

8.  P  to  Q's  4th 

3.  P  takes  P 

4.  Q  takes  P 

i.  KttoQB's3rd 

5.  K  B  to  Q  Kt's  5th 

5.  E  to  Q's  2nd 

6.  B  takes  Kt 

6.  B  takes  B 

7.  B  to  K  Kt's  5th  (a) 

7.  P  to  K  B's  3rd 

8.  B  to  K  E's  4th 

8.  Kt  to  K  E's  3rd 

9.  Kt  to  Q  B's  8rd 

9.  Q  to  Q's  2nd 

10.  Castles  (KE) 

10.  B  to  K's  2nd 

11.  Q  E  to  Q's  sq 

12.  Q  to  Q  B's  4th  (ch.) 

11.  Castles  (K  E) 

12.  E  to  K  B's  2nd 

13.  Kt  to  Q's  4th 

13.  Kt  to  K  Kt's  5th 

14.  P  to  K  E's  3rd 

14.  Kt  to  K's  4th 

15.  Q  to  K's  2nd 

15.  P  to  K  Kt's  4th  (&) 

16.  B  to  K  Kt's  8rd 

16.  E  to  K  Kt's  2nd 

IT.  Kt  to  K  B's  5th 

17.  E  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

18.  P  to  K  B's  4th 

18.  P  takes  P 

19.  E  takes  P 

19.  KtoE'ssq 

20.  E  to  K  E's  4th 

20.  B  to  K  B's  sq 

21.  B  takes  Kt 

21.  B  P  takes  B 

22.  E  to  K  B's  sq 

22.  Q  to  K's  3rd 

23.  Kt  to  Q  Kt's  5th 

23.  Q  to  K  Kt'$  sq 

24.  E  to  K  B's  2nd 

24.  P  to  Q  a's  3rd 

25.  Kt  takes  B  P 

25.  E  to  Q  ITs  sq  ^    -^ 

26.  Kt  to  Q's  5th 

26.  B  takes  Kt 

27.  P  takes  B 

27.  EtoQB's2nd(c) 

28.  P  to  Q  B's  4th 

28.  B  to  K's  2nd 

29.  E  to  K  E's  5th 

29.  Q  to  K's  sq 
80.  Q  E  takes  P 

30.  P  to  Q  B's  5th  (cC) 

31.  E  takes  K  E's  P  (ch.) 

81.  K  takes  E 

82.  Q  to  K  E's  5th  (ch.) 

82.  KtoKt'ssq 

88.  Kt  takes  B  (ch.) 

83.  K  to  Kt's  2nd 

84.  Kt  to  B  5th  (ch.) 

84.  K  to  Kt's  sq 

85.  Kt  takes  Q  P 

White  Resigns. 


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morpht's  games  of  chess. 


(a)  This  is  not  a  bad  move ;  the  reply  made  in  this  instance  by  Mr.  Harr- 
witz  is,  we  believe,  inferior  to  bringing  out  K  Kt  to  B's  3rd. 

(b)  Very  hazardous  ;  and,  as  the  sequel  shows,  only  leading  to  Increased 
difficulties. 

(c)  Had  White  taken  P  with  Q,  Black  would  have  taken  P  with  R  (eh.), 
and  then  played  Q  to  R"s  5th  (cli.),  changing  otf  pieces,  and  finally  winning 
back  a  E  by  Q  to  K  B's  5th  (ch.),  remaining  with  a  won  position. 

(d)  Admirably  played  and  followed  up. 


GAME    XIX. 

Between  Morphy  and  Harrwitz. 


IRKEGULAB    OPENING. 


BLACK.      Mr.  H. 

1.  P  to  Q's  4th 

2.  P  to  Q  B-s  4th 
8.  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

4.  Q  B  to  K  Kfs  5th 

5.  P  to  K"s  3rd 

6.  K  B  to  Q's  3rd 

7.  K  Kt  to  K's  2nd 

8.  Castles 

9.  B  takes  B 

10.  Kt  to  K  Kfs  3rd 

11.  E  P  takes  Kt 

12.  P  to  K  B's  4th  (a) 

13.  PtoKKt's4th 

14.  P  takes  P 

15.  Q  to  Q's  2nd 

16.  Q  R  to  K's  sq 

17.  K  B  to  Q  Kt's  sq 

18.  Q  to  K  B's  2nd 

19.  P  to  Q's  5th 

20.  Q  to  K  B's  3rd 

21.  P  to  Q  Rs  3rd  (d) 

22.  P  to  Q  Kt's  4th 

23.  Kt  to  K's  2nd 

24.  Kt  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

25.  K  to  B's  2nd 

26.  E  to  K  R's  sq 

27.  K  to  Kt's  sq 

28.  E  takes  E 

29.  Q  to  Q's  sq 

80.  Q  to  Q's  2nd 

81.  Kt  to  K  B's  sq 
32.  P  to  K  Kt's  3rd 
83.  P  to  Q  Kt's  5th  (/) 
84  Q  to  K  Kt's  2nd 

85.  K  takes  Q 

86.  P  to  Q  R's  4th 

87.  E  P  takes  P 
38.  Kt  to  Q's  2nd 
89.  P  to  K's  4th 

40.  Kt  takes  P 

41.  B  takes  Kt 


WHITE.      Mr.  M. 

1.  P  to  K  B's  4th 

2.  P  to  K's  8rd 

3.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

4.  B  to  K's  2nd 

5.  Castles 

6.  P  to  Q  Kt's  8rd 

7.  Q  B  to  Q  Kt's  2nd 

8.  Kt  to  K  R's  4th 

9.  Q  takes  B 

10.  Kt  takes  Kt 

11.  P  to  Q's  3rd 

12.  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

13.  Kt  to  Q  Kt's  5th 

14.  P  takes  P 

15.  Q  R  to  K's  sq  (&) 

16.  Q  to  K  R's  5th  (c) 

17.  R  to  K's  3rd 

18.  Q  to  K  R's  4th 

19.  R  to  K  R's  3rd 

20.  Q  to  K  R's  5th 

21.  Kt  to  Q  R's  3rd 

22.  Kt  to  Q  Kt's  sq 

23.  Kt  to  Q's  2nd 

24.  P  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

25.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

26.  Kt  to  K  Kt's  5th  (ch.) 

27.  Q  to  K  B's  3rd 

28.  Kt  takes  R 

29.  Kt  to  K  Kt's  5th  («) 

30.  Q  to  K  R's  5th 

81.  E  to  K's  sq 

82.  Q  to  K  E's  6th 

83.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 
34.  Q  takes  Q  (ch.) 
85.  P  to  Q  R's  3rd 
36.  P  takes  P 

87.  E  to  Q  R's  sq  (g) 

88.  R  to  Q  R's  eth 

89.  P  takes  P 

40.  Kt  takes  Kt 

41.  R  to  Q  B's  6tb 


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35 


42.  K  to  B's  2n(i 

43.  Q  B  to  B's  sq 

44.  B  to  K  B's  4th 

45.  P  to  K  R-a  4th 

46.  K  to  B's  3rd 

47.  B  to  Q  B's  7th 
4S.  B  to  K"s  5th 

49.  K  to  B's  4th 

50.  P  to  K  E's  5th 

51.  K  takes  P 

52.  R  to  K  R's  6th 

53.  R  to  R's  7th  (ch.) 

54.  K  to  K's  6th. 


42.  B  to  K  B's  3rd 

43.  R  to  K's  4th 

44.  B  to  K's  2nd 

45.  R  to  Q's  4th 

46.  K  to  B's  2nd 

47.  R  to  Q's  2nd 
4S.  K  to  K's  sq 

49.  K  to  B's  2nd 

50.  R  to  Q  R's  2nd 

51.  P  takes  P 

52.  R  to  Q  R's  7th 

53.  R  takes  P 

54.  K  to  K's  sq 

55.  Resigns. 

(a)  An  ill-advised  move.  Th-e  K  Kt's  P  and  K's  P  are  now  both  of  them 
weak  and  the  subsequent  cause  of  much  embarrassment.  We  should  hav^ 
much  preferred  P  to  K's  4th. 

(b)  Attacking  the  weak  point  that  we  have  noted  above. 

(c)  "Well  played.  Not  only  threatening  Q  to  Kt's  6tli,  by  which  an  irre- 
sistible attack  would  have  been  gained,  but  also  to  bring  the  Rooks  into 
speedy  co-operation  with  the  Queen  on  the  weak  flank. 

(d)  The  last  four  moves  were  well  and  correctly  played. 

(e)  The  Kt  now  occupies  a  square  from  which  he  cannot  be  easily  dis- 
lodged. 

(/)  Properly  preventing  the  advance  of  the  Q  Kt's  P. 

(g)  White  might  have  here  gained  three  Pawns  for  his  Kt  by  taking  the 
Q's  P,  but  it  is  questionable  in  a  match  game  whether  such  a  step  wer© 
prudent    Mr.  M.  chose  a  surer  mode  of  proceeding  to  victory. 


GAME    XX. 

Between  Morphy  and  Harrwitz, 


philidor's  defence. 


WHITE.    Mr.  M. 

1.  P  to  K's  4  th 

2.  K  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

3.  P  to  Q's  4th 

4.  Q  takes  P 

5.  P  to  K's  5th 
6.'  Q  takes  Q  (ch.) 

7.  K  Kt  takes  P 

8.  Q  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

9.  K  Kt  to  Q  B's  4th 

10.  K  B  takes  B 

11.  Q  B  to  K's  3rd 

12.  Castles  (with  Q  R) 

13.  Q  B  to  K  Kfs  5th 

14.  Kt  to  K's  4th 

15.  Q  B  takes  Kt  (oh.) 

16.  Kt  takes  B 

17.  K  R  to  K's  sq  (ch.) 

18.  R  takes  R  (ch.) 

19.  B  to  Q"s  5th 

20.  B  to  K  B's  3rd 

21.  P  to  Q  B's  3pd 

22.  B  to  K's  sq  (ch.) 


BLACK.     Mr.  H. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  P  to  Q's  3rd 
8.  P  takes  P 

4.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

5.  P  takes  P 

6.  K  takes  Q 

7.  Q  B  to  K's  3rd 

8.  K  B  to  Q's  3rd 

9.  Q  B  takes  Kt 

10.  K  R  to  K's  sq  (ch.> 

11.  K  to  K's  2nd 

12.  P  to  Q  R's  3rd 

13.  Q  Kt  to  Q's  2nd 

14.  P  to  K  R's  3rd 

15.  Kt  takes  B 

16.  P  takes  Kt 

17.  K  to  K  B's  sq 

18.  Kt  takes  R 

19.  R  to  Q  Kt's  sq 

20.  P  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

21.  K  to  K's  2nd 

22.  K  to  K  B'a  sq 


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MORPHTS    GAMES    OF    CHESS. 


23.  K  to  Q  B's  2nd 

24.  K  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

25.  K  to  Q  R's  4th 

26.  P  to  Q  Kt's  4th 

27.  E  to  K-s  3rd 

28.  B  to  Q's  5th 

29.  P  to  K  E^s  4th 
80.  K  to  Q  Kt's  Brd 

31.  E  to  K  B's  Srd 

32.  P  to  Q  E's  4th 

33.  B  takes  Kt 

34.  K  to  Q  B's  4th 

35.  K  to  Q  Kt's  5th 
86.  Q  B  P  takes  P 

37.  K  takes  P 

38.  K  to  Q  E's  5th 

39.  E  to  Q's  Srd  (ch.) 

40.  E  takes  Q  P 

41.  E  to  Q's  4th  (ch.) 

42.  K  takes  E 

43.  P  to  K  B's  4th 

44.  P  to  Q  E's  5th 

45.  P  to  Q  E's  6th 

46.  P  to  Q  E's  7th 

47.  P  Qneens  (ch.) 

48.  Q  to  K  B's  3rd 


23.  Kt  to  Q  B's  2nd 

24.  Kt  to  K's  3rd 

25.  P  to  Q  Kt's  Srd 

26.  K  to  K's  2ad 

27.  K  to  Q's  2nd 

28.  P  to  K  E's  4th 

29.  E  to  K's  sq 

30.  E  to  K  Kt's  sq 

31.  K  to  K's  2ud 
82.  P  to  Q  E's  4th 

33.  K  takes  B 

34.  P  to  K  Kt's  4th 

35.  P  takes  Q  Kt  P 

36.  P  takes  K  E  P 

87.  E  to  Q  Kt's  sq  (ch.) 

38.  K  to  Q's  4th 

39.  K  to  Q  B's  5th 

40.  E  takes  Q  Kt  P 

41.  K  takes  E 

42.  P  to  K  B's  4th 

43.  K  to  K's  6th 

44.  K  to  K  B's  7th 

45.  K  takes  Kt  P 

46.  P  to  K  E's  6th 

47.  K  to  K  Kt's  8th 


Aj\d  Black  resigns,  (a) 


(a)  Staunton  gives  the  following  continuation  : 


49.  Q  to  K  Kt's  6th  (ch.) 

50.  K  to  Q  B's  4th 

51.  Q  takes  P,  at  K  E's  5th 

52.  K  to  Q's  5th 

53.  Q  takes  Q  (ch.) 

54.  K  to  K's  5th,  and  wins. 


48.  P  to  K  E's  7th 

49.  K  to  E's  sq 

50.  P  to  K  E's  5th 

51.  K  to  Kt's  sq 

52.  P  to  K  E's  8th  (queens) 
58.  K  takes  Q 


GAME    XXI. 

Between  Morphy  and  Harrwitz. 


lEEEGULAE    OPENINa. 


BLACK.     Mr.  H. 

1.  P  to  Q's  4th 

2.  P  to  Q  B's  4th 

3.  Kt  to  Q  B's  Srd 

4.  B  to  K  Kt's  5th 

5.  P  to  K's  Srd 

6.  B  to  Q's  Srd 

7.  K  Kt  to  K's  2nd 

8.  B  takes  Kt 

9.  Castles 

10.  Q  to  Q's  2nd 

11.  P  to  K  B's  4th 

12.  P  to  Q's  5th 

13.  P  takes  P 

14.  Q  E  to  E's  sq 


-WHITE.    Mr.  M. 

1.  P  to  K  B's  4th 

2.  P  to  K's  Srd 

3.  Kt  to  K  B's  Srd 

4.  B  to  K's  2nd 

5.  Ciistles 

6.  P  to  Q  Kt's  Srd 

7.  B  to  Q  Kt's  2nd 

8.  B  takes  B 

9.  Q  to  K'a  2nd 

10.  P  to  Q's  3rd 

11.  P  to  Q  B's  4th 

12.  Kt  to  Q  E's  Srd 
18.  Q  takes  P 

14.  B  to  K  E's  5th 


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37 


15.  Kt  to  K  Kt's  3rd  15.  Q  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

16.  Kt  to  Q's  5th  16.  Q  B  takes  Kt 

17.  P  takes  B  17.  B  takes  Kt 

IS.  P  takes  B  IS.  Kt  to  Q  B's  2ad 

19.  K  to  B's  2nd  19.  Q  E  to  K's  sq 

20.  R  to  K  Rs  sq  20.  R  to  K's  2nd 
Ul.  R  to  K  R's  4th  21.  Q  to  K  B's  2  ad 

22.  B  to  K's  '2nd  22.  Kt  to  Ks  sq 

23.  Q  to  Q's  3rd  23.  Kt  to  K  Bs  3rd 

24.  B  to  B's  3rd  24.  P  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

25.  R  to  K's  2nd  25.  K  R  to  K's  sq  (a) 

26.  P  to  Q  Kt's  3rd  26.  Q  to  K  Kfs  2nd 

27.  R  to  K  R's  sq  27.  P  to  K  R's  3rd 

25.  K  to  Kt's  sq  2S.  P  to  K  Kfs  4th 

29.  P  takes  P  29.  P  takes  P 

30.  B  to  K  R's  5th  80.  Kt  to  K's  5tli 

81.  R  to  K"s  sq  31.  R  to  K  B's  sq 

82.  B  to  B's  3rd  82.  Kt  takes  P 

83.  R  to  K  R-s  3rd  33.  Q  to  K's  4th  (b) 

84.  R  to  K  R's  6th  84.  P  to  K  Kt's  5th 
35.  B  to  Q's  sq  85.  K  to  Kt's  2nd 
86.  R  to  K  R's  4th  86.  R  to  K  Rs  sq 
37.  R  takes  R  87.  K  takes  R 

85.  B  to  Q  B's  2nd  38.  R  to  K  R's  2nd  (c) 

39.  Q  to  Qs  2ud  39.  Q  to  Q  Kt's  7th  {O) 

40.  R  to  Q's  sq  40.  R  to  K  R's  Sth  Cch.) 

41.  K  to  B's  2nd  41.  R  to  K  B's  Slh  (ch.)  (e) 

42.  K  takes  Kt  42.  Q  to  K's  4th  (ch.) 

43.  K  to  R's  4th  4-3.  Q  to  K  B's  3rd  (ch.) 

44.  K  to  Kt's  3rd  44.  Q  to  K's  4th  (ch.) 

Drawn  by  perpetual  check. 

(a)  A  singular  variation  would  have  arisen  if  White  had  played  P  to 
K  Kt's  4th,  e.  g. : 

25.  P  to  K  Kt's  4th 

26.  P  takes  P  (best)  26.  Kt  to  K's  5th  (ch.) 

27.  K  to  Kfs  sq  27.  Kt  takes  P  at  Kfs  3rd 

28.  R  to  K's  sq  (best)  2S.  Q  to  K  Kfs  2nd 

■with  a  fine  game. 
(ft)  White  has  now  a  Pawn  ahead,  and  so  superior  a  position  as  to  render 
victory  almost  a  certainty. 

(c)  Mr.  Morphy  plays  all  this  with  his  usual  ability. 

(d)  Threatening  to  win  the  Queen. 

(e)  The  main  feature  of  Mr.  Morphy's  play  is,  that  it  is  so  free  from  mis- 
takes. This,  however,  was  evidently  an  oversight,  and  throws  away  a  gama 
•which  would  have  been  won  with  ease  had  he  taken  Rook  with  Rook. 


GAME    XXII. 

Between  Morphy  and  Harrwitz. 
philtdok's  defence. 
WHITE.    Mr.  M.  BLACK.    Mr.  H. 


1.  KP2 

2.  KKttoB'sSrd 

3.  QP2 

4.  PtokeaP 


1.  KP2 

2.  QPl 

8.  Q  B  to  Kt's  5th  (O) 
4.  B  takes  Kt 


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MORPHY  8    G^MES    OF    CHESS. 


5.  Q  takes  B 

6.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

7.  Q  to  Q  Kt's  .3rd 

8.  B  takes  K  B  P  (cli.) 

9.  Q  B  to  Kt's  5th 

10.  K  B  to  E's  5th 

11.  B  to  K  irs  6th  (ch.) 

12.  B  to  K  B's  3rd 

13.  Q  to  Q  B\s  4th 

14.  Q  to  K-s  2nd  (c) 

15.  Q  B  to  K's  3rd 

16.  Q  Kt  to  Q's  2nd 
IT.  Castles  (Q  E) 

18.  K  Kt  P  1 

19.  B  to  K  Kt's  2nd 

20.  K  E  to  K  B's  sq 

21.  K  B  P  2 

22.  Q  Kt  P  1 

23.  P  to  K  B's  5th  (d) 

24.  K  Kt  P  1 

25.  B  to  K  B's  3rd  (e) 

26.  Kt  to  Q  Kfs  sq  (/) 

27.  Q  to  K  B's  2nd 

28.  K  Kt  P  1 

29.  P  to  K  B's  6th  (cb.) 
80.  P  to  K  B's  7th 

31.  P  takes  Kt  (ch.) 

32.  B  takes  Kt 

33.  Q  to  K's  2nd 

34.  Kt  to  Q's  2nd 

35.  B  to  K  Kfs  4th 

36.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

37.  K  E  P  2 

38.  E  takes  E 

39.  Q  to  Q  B's  4th 

40.  Q  to  K's  6th 

41.  K  to  Q'ssq 

42.  Kt  to  Q's  2nd 

43.  Ktto  Q  B's  4th 

44.  Q  to  Q's  5th 

45.  P  takes  Q 

46.  E  to  K  B's  3rd  (i) 

47.  Q  B  P  1  {k) 

48.  P  takes  P 

49.  K  to  Q  B's  2nd 

50.  K  to  Q  B's  3rd 

51.  B  to  K's  6th  (0 

52.  Q  Kt  P  1 

53.  P  to  Q  Kt's  5th 

54.  P  to  Q  Kt's  6th 

55.  B  to  Q  B's  8th 

56.  P  to  Q  Kt's  7th 

57.  Kt  takes  Q  P 

58.  Kt  to  Q  Kt's  5th 

59.  P  to  Q's  6th  (ch.) 


5.  P  takes  P 

6.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd  (6) 

7.  K  B  to  Q's  3rd 

8.  K  to  K  B's  sq 

9.  Q  Kt  to  Q's  2nd 

10.  K  Kt  P  1 

11.  K  to  K's  2nd 

12.  Q  Kt  to  Q  B's  4th 

13.  QKtP2 

14.  Q  Kt  to  K's  3rd 

15.  Q  E  P  1 

16.  K  to  K  B's  2nd 

17.  Q  to  K's  2nd 

IS.  K  E  to  Q  Kt's  sq 

19.  Q  E  P  1 

20.  Q  E  P  on 

21.  Q  E  P  1 

22.  K  to  K  Kt's  2nd 

23.  Kt  to  K  B's  sq 

24.  Q  to  K's  sq 

25.  Q  to  Q  B's  3rd 

26.  Q  Kt  P  1  ((7) 

27.  Q  Kt  to  Qs  2nd 

28.  K  Kt  home 

29.  K  to  K  E's  sq 

80.  Kt  to  Q  B's  4th  (h) 

31.  K  takes  P 

32.  B  takes  B 

83.  Q  to  K's  3rd 

84.  K  to  K  E's  sq 

35.  Q  to  K's  2nd 

36.  K  E  to  Q's  sq 
87.  E  to  Q's  3rd 

33.  P  takes  E 

89.  E  to  K  B's  sq 

40.  B  to  K's  6th  (ch.) 

41.  Q  to  Q  B's  2nd 

42.  B  to  K  B's  5th 

43.  Q  to  Q  B's  4th 

44.  Q  takes  Q  (ch.) 

45.  E  to  Q's  sq 

46.  K  to  K  Kt's  2nd 

47.  E  to  Q  Kt's  sq 

48.  E  takes  P 

49.  K  to  B's  sq 

50.  E  to  Q  Kt's  4th 

51.  E  to  Q  B's  4th 

52.  E  to  Q  B's  2nd 

53.  K  to  K's  2nd 

54.  E  to  Q  Kt's  2nd 

65.  E  to  Q  Kt's  sq 

66,  K  to  Q's  sq 
57.  K  to  K's  2nd 

55.  KEPI 


And  Harrwitz  surrenders  game  and  match ;  feeling,  we  presume,  that 
having  only  won  two  games  against  five,  further  resistance  were  hopeless. 
Nevertheless,  Harrwitz  ought  to  have  played  out  the  last  two  games,  if 
only  in  compliment  to  his  opponent. 


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39 


(a)  Bad  opening;  but  Harrwitz  staggers  under  defeat  like  a  drunkea 

man,  and  seems  to" say,  "  It's  all  oue  !" 

(&)  Better  defend  with  Queen. 

(c)  Morphy  has  a  clear  Pawn  ;  hut  his  foe  is  well  in  the  field,  and  great 
caution  is  necessary.  He  preserves  his  game  with  •wonderful  talent,  and 
this  game  is  a  le-son  as  to  how  to  hold  an  advantage. 

{cf)  Morphy's  favorite  ailvance  of  K  B  P. 

(e)  Prepariiisr  to  pubh  K  Kt  P. 

(/)  To  restrain  Q  from  Q  B"s  3rd. 

Ig)  His  attack  is  spoiled  by  his  own  Pawns  in-front. 

(A)  If  he  play  Kt  to  K's  2nd,  you  answer  B  to  K  Kt's  4th. 

(i)  Quiet,  but  good.  The  student  hardly  sees  the  mode  in  which  this 
Book  is  now  played  to  break  up  opponent. 

{k)  Now  we  see  why  Eook  was  played  up. 

(Z)  Morphy  will  not  give  away  even  half  a  chance. 


GAME    XXIII. 

Between  Morphy  and  Harrwitz. 

Preliminary  game  played  wliile  the  terms  of  the  above 
match  were  under  discussion  by  the  seconds. 


ALLG-AIER  GAJIBIT. 


WHITE.     Mr.  H. 

P  to  K's  4th 

P  to  K  B's  4th 

K  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

P  to  K  E's  4th 

K  Kt  to  K's  5th 

K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

P  takes  P 

P  to  Q's  4th 

K  B  to  Q  Kt's  5th  (ch) 

P  takes  P 

P  takes  P 

Q  takes  K  Kt  P  (ch.) 

Q  B  takes  P 

Q  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

B  takes  B 

Q  B  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

Castles  (on  K's  side) 

Q  11  to  Q's  sq 

B  takes  Q  Kt 

K  E  to  K's  sq 

Q  to  K  B's  3rd 

Q  to  Q's  3rd 

Q  to  Q  Kt's  5th 

P  to  Q's  5th 

B  to  K  B's  2nd 

Q  to  her  3rd  (a) 

Q  takes  Kt 

K  to  B's  sq 

Kt  to  K's  2nd 

Q  E  to  Q's  3rd 

P  takes  B 

Kt  to  K  B's  4th 


BLACK.      Mr.  M- 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  P  takes  P 

8.  P  to  K  Kt's  4th 

4.  P  to  K  Kt's  5th 

5.  K  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

6.  P  to  Q's  4th 

7.  K  B  to  Q's  3rd 

8.  K  Kt  to  K  E's  4th 

9.  P  to  Q  B's  3rd 

10.  Castles 

11.  Q  B  takes  P 

12.  K  Kt  to  Kt's  2nd 

13.  Q  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

14.  B  takes  K  Kt 

15.  P  to  K  B's  3rd 

16.  Kt  to  Q  K's  3rd 

17.  Q  K  to  Q's  sq 

18.  K  to  E's  sq 

19.  B  takes  B 

20.  Q  B  to  his  sq 

21 .  B  lo  Q  Kt's  2nd 

22.  Q  E  to  Q's  2nd 

23.  Q  to  her  sq 

24  Kt  to  K  B's  4th 

25.  K  E  to  K  Kt's  sq 

26.  Q  E  to  K  Kt's  2nd 

27.  E  takes  P  (ch.) 

28.  B  to  Q  E's  3rd  (ch.) 

29.  Q  to  Q's  3rd 

30.  B  takes  E 

81.  Q  E  to  K  E's  7th 
S2.  Q  E  to  K  E's  8th  (ch.) 


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morphy's  games  of  chess. 


83.  K  to  K^s  2nd 

84.  Kt  to  K's  6tli 

85.  E  to  Q  B's  sq 

86.  P  to  Q  Kt's  :3rd 

87.  Q  takes  K  B  P  (ch.) 
38.  K  to  K's  3id  {b) 
89.  K  to  K's  2nd 

40.  Q  takes  R 

41.  E  to  K  Kt's  sq  (ch.) 

42.  E  to  K  Kt's  2ud 

43.  K  to  B's  3rd 

44.  K  to  Kfs  3rd 

45.  Q  takes  R 

46.  Q  to  Q  E's  Sth  (ch.) 

47.  Q  takes  Q  E  P  (cb.)  and  wins, 

(a)  The  attack  obtained,  though  tremendous  in  appearance,  hardly  war- 
rants such  a  sacrifice  as  this. 

(b)  Curiously  enousjli  he  has  nothing  better  to  do ;  he  cannot  take  the 
Bishop  on  account  of  the  threatened  mate;  and  the  check  witli  his  Queen 
at  her  Kt's  2ad,  or  of  the  Eook  at  K  Kt's  6th,  is  equally  unavailing. 


83.  Q  R  to  K  E's  7th 

84.  K  E  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

35.  Q  to  Q  Kfs  sq 

36.  K  R  to  K  Kt's  7th 

37.  K  to  Kt's  sq 

38.  R  to  K  E's  Cth  (ch.) 

39.  E  takes  B  (ch.) 

40.  E  to  K  E's  7th 

41.  K  to  E's  sq 

42.  Q  to  K's  4th  (eh.) 

43.  Q  takes  Q  P  (ch.) 

44.  E  takes  E  (ch.) 

45.  Q  takes  Kt 

46.  K  to  Kt's  2nd 


GAME    XXIV. 

Between  Morphy  and  Barnes  in  consnltation   against 
Staunton  and  "Alter''  (Owen,)  in  consultation. 

philidoe's  defence. 


WHITE.     Messrs.  S.  &  A. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

3.  P  to  Q's  4th 

4.  P  takes  K  P  (&) 

5.  Kt  to  K  Kt's  5tb 

6.  P  to  K's  6th 

7.  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd  (c) 

8.  K  Kt  takes  K  P 

9.  Q  to  K  E's  Sth  (ch.) 
10.  Q  to  K's  5th 

n.  B  takes  Kt 

12.  E  to  Q's  sq 

13.  Q  to  Q  B's  Tth 

14.  Q  takes  Q  Kt  P  (e) 

15.  P  to  K  B's  3rd 

16.  Q  takes  E 
IT.  Kt  to  K's  4th 

18.  B  to  K's  2nd 

19.  Castles 

20.  Kt  to  Q  B's  5tb 

21.  K  to  E's  sq 

22.  E  to  Q's  4th 

23.  E  to  K's  4th 

24.  K  E  to  Q's  sq 

25.  E  to  K  E's  4tb 

26.  Q  takes  Kt 

27.  Q  to  K  E's  2nd 

28.  E  to  Q's  Tth 


BLACK.     Messrs.  M.  &  B. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  P  to  Q's  3rd 

8.  P  to  K  B's  4th  (a) 
4  K  B  P  takes  P 

5.  P  to  Q's  4th 

6.  Kt  to  K  Es  3rd 

7.  P  to  Q  B's  3rd 

8.  P  takes  Kt 

9.  P  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

10.  E  to  K  Kt's  sq 

11.  B  takes  B 

12.  Q  to  K  Kt's  4th  ((^ 

13.  B  takes  P 

14.  P  to  K's  6th 

15.  Q  to  K's  2nd  (/> 

16.  K  to  K  B's  2nd 

17.  B  to  K  B's  5th  (ff) 
IS,  K  to  K  Kt's  2nd  (h} 

19.  Q  to  Q  B's  2n<l 

20.  B  takes  K  E  P  (ch.) 

21.  B  to  Q  B's  sq 

22.  B  to  K  Kt's  6tli  (*> 

23.  K  to  K  E's  sq 

24.  Q  to  K  Kt's  2nd 

25.  B  takes  E 

26.  B  to  Q  E's  3rd 

27.  B  takes  B 

28.  Q  to  K  B's  Srd 


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29.  Kt  to  K's  4th  29.  B  to  Q  B's  5th 

80.  Kt  to  K  B's  6th  30.  P  to  K's  7th 

SI.  E  to  K's  7th  31.  Q  to  Q  B^s  8th  (ch.) 

3-2.  Q  to  K  Kt's  sq  32,  Q  takes  Q  (ch.) 

33.  K  takes  Q  83.  P  to  K's  8th,  becoming  a 

Queen  (ch.) 

34.  E  takes  Q  34.  B  takes  E 

And  the  White  allies  resigned. 

(a)  This  is  a  move  that  was  favored  by  Philidor,  but  one  that  we  consider 
to  be  hazardous. 

(b)  We  believe  that  B  to  Q  B's  4th  leads  to  a  more  powerful  attack,  Tho 
following  analysis  of  that  move  is  given  in  the  ditFerent  handbooks : 

4  B  to  Q  B's  4th  4.  P  Uikes  K  P 

5.  Kt  takes  K  P.  and  whether  Black  play  4  P  takes  Kt  or  4  P  to  Q's  4th, 
"White  gains  an  undeniable  advantage  by  Q  to  K  E's  5ih  (ch.) 

(c)  The  following  train  of  play  here  is  recommended  by  the  best  authori- 
ties, and  we  are  of  opinion  that  it  gives  White  a  game  far  superior  to  that 
they  gain  by  the  move  in  the  text. 

7.  P  to  K  B's  3rd  7.  B  to  K's  2nd  (best) 

8.  P  takes  P  8.  B  takes  Kt 

9.  Q  to  K  R's  5th  (ch.)  9,  P  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

10.  Q  takes  B  10.  Q  takes  Q 

11.  B  takes  Q  11,  Kt  to  K  Kt's  5th 

12.  P  takes  P,  &c. 

{d)  They  might  also  have  played  Q  to  K's  2nd,  but  the  square  chosen  was 
much  the  better,  preventing  Kt  takes  K  P. 

(e)  Had  Kt  taken  K  P,  the  following  variation  would,  probably,  have 
arisen : 

14.  Kt  takes  P  14.  Q  to  K's  2nd 

15.  E  to  Q's  Sth  (ch.)  15.  Q  takes  E 
(he  may  also  play  K  to  B's  2nd  with  a  good  game.) 

16.  Kt  to  Q's  Gth  (ch.)  16.  Q  takes  Kt 

17.  Q  takes  Q  17.  K  to  K  B's  2nd 
remaining  with  a  full  equivalent  for  the  lost  Queen. 

(/)  With  the  view  to  imprison  the  Queen  if  she  capture  the  Eook, 
Ig)  This  was  necessary  to  prevent  the  liberation  of  Queen  by  Q  to  Q  Kt's 
7th,  &c. 

(/i)  This  was  farsighted  and  prudent;  had  they  attempted  to  gain  Queen 
by  Q  to  Q  B's  2nd,  the  variation  following  will  show  that  they  would  have 
lost  the  game: 

IS.'  Q  to  Q  B's  2nd 
If  19,  B  to  K's  4th 

And  if  19.  BtoKE'sSrd 

20.  E  to  Q's  7th  (ch.) 
If  20.  B  takes  E 

21.  Q  takes  E  (ch.)       K  takes  Q 

22.  Kt  to  B's  6th  (ch.)  K  to  B's  2nd 


(i)  After  this  move  White's  game  • 


19.  P  to  K  Kt's  3rd      Kt  to  Q  E's 
3rd  (best) 

20.  Kt  to  Kt's  5th  (ch.),  &c. 

20.  Q  to  Q  Kt's  7th,  liberating  Q 

20,  Q  takes  E 

21,  B  to  Q  B's  4th  (ch.),  winning 
theR 

23.  Kt  takes  Q  B  takes  Kt 

24,  B  takes  Kt  with  the  exchange 

ahead- 
m  indefensible. 


42 


MORPHY  S    GAMES    OF    CHESSc 


GAME     XXV. 

Between  the  same  players  in  consultation. 


lEEEGTJLAE    OPENING. 

Kessrs.  M.  &  B.        white.    Messrs.  S.  &  "  Alt." 
1.  P  to  Q's  4th 


BLACK 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  P  takes  P 
8.  Q  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

4.  P  to  Q's  4tb 

5.  K  B  to  Q's  3rd 

6.  Q  B  to  K's  3id 

7.  K  Kt  to  K  B's  3r(3 

8.  Castles 

9.  Q  to  K's  2nd 

10.  Q  B  to  K  Kt's  5th 

11.  Q  Kt  to  K's  4th 

12.  Kt  takes  Kt  (ch.> 

13.  Q  to  K's  4th 

14.  Q  to  K  R's  4th 

15.  Kt  takes  B 

16.  P  to  Q  B's  3rd 

17.  Q  Pv  to  K's  sq 
IS.  P  to  K  B's  4th 

19.  Q  to  K  R's  3rd 

20.  Q  R  to  K's  5lh 

21.  K  R  to  K's  sq 

22.  P  to  K  Kt's  4th 

23.  B  to  K's  4th  (&) 

24.  P  takes  K  R  P 

25.  B  to  K  B's  2nd 

26.  B  takes  Kt 

27.  Q  takes  K  R  P 

28.  K  to  K  B's  2nd 

29.  Q  to  K  R's  4th 

80,  Q  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

81,  P  to  K  B's  5th  (d) 

82,  Kt  to  K"s  4th  (dis.  ch, 
S3,  Kt  to  K  B's  6th  (ch.) 

84.  Q  takes  Q 

85.  Kt  takes  R 
36.  P  to  K  R's  4th 
87.  K  to  K's  3rd 
38.  K  to  Q's  2nd 
89.  Q  R  to  K  Kt's  5th  (g} 

40,  K  R  to  K  B's  sq  (ch.) 

41.  Q  R  to  K  Kt's  8th 

42,  P  to  K  R's  5th 

43.  K  R  to  K  B's  2nd  {h) 

44.  K  R  to  K  R's  2nd 

45,  Q  R  to  K  R's  Sth 

46.  Q  R  to  Q  R's  8tb 

47,  R  takes  Q  R  P 

48,  R  to  Q  Kt's  7th 

49,  K  takes  Q  Kt  P  (ch.) 

50.  P  to  Q  R's  4th 

51.  Q  R  to  K's  6th 
62.  P  to  Q  E'8  5th 

And,  is  »  fsw  moves,  White  resigned. 


2,  Q  takes  P 

3.  Q  to  Q's  sq 
4  KKttoKB's3rd 

5.  Q  Kt  to  Q  B's  Srd 

6.  P  to  K's  3rd 

7.  K  B  to  Q's  3rd 

8.  Castles 

9.  P  to  Q  Kfs  3rd 

10.  Q  B  to  Q  Kt's  2nd 

11.  KB  to  K's  2nd 

12.  B  takes  Kt 

13.  P  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

14.  B  takes  B 
1.5.  P  to  K  R's  4th 

16.  Q  to  K  B's  3rd 

17.  Kt  to  K  2nd 

15.  Kt  to  K  B's  4th 

19.  K  R  to  Q's  sq 

20.  Q  R  to  Q's  sq 

21.  Kt  to  K  Kt's  2nd 

22.  P  to  Q  B's  4tli  (a) 

23.  B  to  Q  R's  3rd 

24.  Kt  takes  P 

25.  P  takes  Q  P 

26.  P  takes  B 

27.  Q  to  K  Kt's  2nd 

28.  Q  to  K  B's  3rd  (c) 

29.  B  to  Q's  6th 

80,  B  to  K  Kfs  3rd 

81,  B  takes  P 

82,  Q  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

83,  K  to  B's  sq 
84  B  takes  Q  (e) 

85.  K  takes  Kt 

86.  P  to  Q's  6th 

87.  K  to  K's  2n(l 

88.  R  to  Q's  3rd  (/) 

89.  K  to  K  B's  3rd 

40.  B  to  K  B's  4th 

41.  R  to  Q's  4th 

42.  R  to  K's  4tb 

43.  K  to  K's  5th 

44.  B  to  K  R's  2nd 

45.  K  to  K  Kfs  2nd 

46.  K  to  K  R's  3rd  (i) 

47.  R  to  K  B"s  5th 

48.  P  to  K  B's  3rd 

49.  P  to  K  B's  3rd 

50.  P  to  K's  5th 
61.  R  to  K  B's  6tb 


morphy's  games  of  chess.        43 

(a)  Instead  of  this  attacking  move,  White  might  have  obtained  a  safe, 
though  somewhat  crowded  game,  by  playing  Q  E  to  Q's  4th. 

(b)  Had  tliey  played  the  more  forward  game  of  28.  P  takes  P,  or  B  to 
Q  Kt's  5th,  many  striking  variations  would  have  arisen.    Suppose: 

23.  P  takes  Q  B  P  23.  Q  takes  K  B  P 

24.  B  to  Q  Kt's  5th  24.  P  to  K  B's  3rd 

(Better  than  E  to  K's  2nd). 


25.  B  takes  K  (best) 

26.  B  to  K  B's  7  th  (oh.) 

27.  Q  to  K's  3rd  (best) 

28.  Q  takes  Q 

29.  Kt  takes  K  P 
SO.  B  takes  Kt 

25.  P  takes  R 

26.  K  to  R's  sq 

27.  RtoQ's7tta 
23.  P  takes  Q 

29.  Kt  takes  Kt 

30.  P  to  K  B's  6th 

And  White  must  win. 

Again: 

23.  B  to  Q  Kt's  5th 

24.  B  to  K's  2nd 

25.  P  takes  K  E  P 

26.  B  takes  Kt 

27.  Q  takes  P 

28.  K  to  Bs  2nd 

29.  E  to  K  Kt's  sq 

23.  K  E  to  K's  2nd 

24.  P  takes  Q  P 

25.  Kt  takes  P 

26.  P  takes  B 

27.  Q  to  K  Kt's  2nd 

28.  P  takes  P 

(If  29.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd,  White  may  play  29.  E  to  Q's  7th  (ch.),  and  win.) 

29.  E  to  Q's  7th  (ch.) 
80.  K  to  K's  sq,  or  K's  3rd  80.  K  E  to  Q's  2ad 

And  White  have  a  winning  game. 
Again : 

23.  B  to  K's  2nd  23.  P  takes  Q  P 

24.  P  takes  K  E  P  24.  Kt  takes  P 

25.  B  takes  Kt  25.  P  takes  B 

26.  Q  takes  P  26,  Q  to  K  Kt's  2nd 

(&c.,  as  in  the  preceding  variation.) 

(c)  If  28.  P  takes  Q  B's  P,  then  follows  29.  Kt  to  K's  4th,  &c. 

(d)  Very  cleverly  played. 

(e)  It  is  questionable  whether  taking  the  Queen  with  the  Bishop  Is  the 
better  play. 

(/)  White  imprudently  play  to  win  through  the  strength  of  their  centra 
pioneers:  by  adopting  the  obvious  course  of  K  Eook^to  Book's  square 
they  could  have  drawn  the  game  easily. 

{g)  The  coup  juste,  preventing  the  threatened  advance  of  White's  K  B's 
Pawn,  and  thus  rendering  their  last  move  of  E  to  Q's  3rd  abortive. 

(/i)  White  have  now  no  longer  a  chance  of  retrieving  the  game, 

(0  Bad,  but  they  had  nothing  better  left  If  45.  E  to  Q  E's  5th,  then  46. 
P  to  K  E'3  6th  (ch.),  &c. 


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morphy's  games  of  chess. 


GAME    XXVI. 

Between  Morphy  and  Boden. 


RUY   LOPEZ. 

■WHITE.    Mr.  M. 

BLACK.     Mr.  B 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  Kt  to  K  Ks  3rd 

2.  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

3.  B  to  Q  Kf  s  5tli 

3.  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

4.  P  to  Q  B's  3rd 

4.  Q  to  K's  2nd 

5.  Castles 

5.  P  to  K  B's  3rd  (a) 

6.  P  to  Q's  4th 

6.  B  to  Kt's  3rd 

7.  Kt  to  Q  R's  3rd 

7.  Q  Kt  to  Q's  sq 

8.  Q  Kt  to  Q  B's  4th 

8.  Q  Kt  to  K  B's  2nd 

9.  Q  Kt  to  K's  3rd 

9.  P  to  Q  B's  3rd 

10.  Q  Kt  to  K  B's  5th 

10.  QtoKB'ssq 

11.  K  B  to  Q  E's  4th 

11.  P  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

12.  Q  Kt  to  K's  3rd 

12.  P  to  Q's  3rd 

13.  P  to  Q's  5tb 

13,  Q  B  to  Q's  2nd 

14.  P  takes  P 

14.  P  takes  P 

15.  Q  Kt  to  Q  B's  4th 

15.  Q  R  to  Q  B's  sq 

16.  P  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

16.  Q  B  to  K's  3rd 

17.  Q  to  Q's  3rd 

17.  Q  to  K's  2nd 

18.  Q  B  to  R's  3rd 

18.  B  takes  Kt 

19.  Q  takes  B 

19.  K  to  B's  sq 

20.  Q  R  to  Q's  sq 

21.  Q  R  to  Q's  3d 

20.  P  to  Q  B's  4th 

21.  K  Kt  to  R's  3rd 

22.  K  to  R's  sq 

22.  K  to  Kt's  2nd 

23.  Q  B  to  Q  B's  sq 

23.  K  R  to  K  B's  sq 

24.  K  Kt  takes  Kt  P 

24.  P  to  K  Kt's  4th  (jb) 

25.  P  to  K  R's  3rd 

25.  K  Kt  to  R's  3rd 

26.  K  R  to  K  Kt's  sq 

26.  K  to  R's  sq 

27.  K  Kt  to  R's  4th 

27.  K  R  to  K  Kt's  sq 

28.  Q  R  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

28.  P  to  K  Kt's  4th 

29.  Kt  to  B's  5th 

29.  Kt  takes  Kt 

80.  P  takes  Kt 

80.  Q  to  Q  Kt's  2nd  (or  • 

81.  K  R  to  Kt's  2nd 

31.  P  to  Q's  4th 

82.  Q  to  K  Kt's  4th 

82.  Kt  to  R's  3rd 

33.  Q  to  K  R's  5th 

83.  Kt  takes  B  P 

34.  K  R  to  K  B's  3rd 

84.  Kt  to  Kt's  2nd  (c) 

35.  Q  to  R's  Cth 

85.  B  to  Q's  sq 

36.  K  R  takes  P  (d) 

86.  B  takes  R 

37.  Q  takes  B 

87.  Q  R  to  K  B's  sq 

38.  Q  takes  K  P 

88.  Q  R  to  B's  4th 

39.  Q  to  K's  8rd 

89.  P  to  Q's  5tli 

40.  P  takes  P 

40.  Q  R  to  Bs  6th 

41.  Q  to  K's  2nd 

41.  P  takes  P 

42.  Q  B  takes  P 

42.  P  to  Q's  6th 

43.  Q  to  Q's  2nd 

43.  Q  to  Q's  4th 

44.  P  to  Q  Kt's  4th 

44.  K  R  to  K  B  (e) 

45.  Q  B  to  R's  Cth 

^-          45.  Q  R  takes  R  P  (ch.) 

46.  K  to  Kt's  sq 

46.  KR  to  KKfssq 

47.  Q  B  to  Kt's  5th  (/) 

47.  Q  to  Q's  5th  {(i) 

48.  Q  to  K  B's  4th 

4S.  Q  to  K  R's  Sth  (ch.) 

49.  Q  to  Q  B's  sq 

49.  Q  to  K's  4th 

50.  Q  B  to  R's  6th 

50.  Kt  to  K's  sq 

61.  E  takes  R  (ch.) 

51.  K  takes  E 

62.  K  B  to  Kt'a  8rd  (ch.) 

62.  K  to  E's  sq 

MORPHY  S  GAMES  OF  CHESS. 


45 


53.  Q  B  to  K  B's  4tb 
5i.  Q  B  to  Kfs  Srd 

55.  Q  to  Q's  sq 

56.  Q  takes  P 

57.  K  to  Kt's  2nfl. 
And  after  a  few  more  mores  the  game  \yas  abandoned  as  drawn. 


53.  Q  to  K  Kt's  2nd  (ch.) 

54.  R  to  R's  4th  (7i) 

55.  R  to  K"s  4th 

56.  R  to  K^s  Sih  (ch.) 


(a)  This  defence  has  recently  come  into  favor  with  some  of  our  best 
players,  but  its  soundness  not" having  been  sulficiently  tested,  we  cannot 
pronounce  with  certainty  on  its  merits. 

(b)  Phwed  Solely  with  the  view  of  gaining  an  attack. 

(c)  Kt  to  R's  5th  would  appear  to  gain  the  exchange,  but  such  is  not  the 
case,  as  White  takes  the  K  B  P,  and"  when  Black  captures,  the  Rook  has 
the  formidable  move  R  to  K  B's  7th,  <fec. 

(d)  Very  well  played,  breaking  up  the  phalanx  of  Black's  Pawns,  which 
threatened  to  become  irresistible. 

(e)  R  takes  P  (ch.)  followed  by  Q  to  K's  4th  would  have  been  a  better 
move. 

( /■)  Had  White  played  K  B  to  Q  Kt's  Srd,  Black  would  have  replied 
with  the  winning  move,  Q  to  K  R's  4th,  and  if  47.  Q  to  K  B's  4th,  Black 
would  have  won'a  piece  by  taking  B  with  Rook. 

(g)  Q  to  K's  4th  would  have  been  even  more  threatening,  and,  at  the 
same  time,  have  prevented  White  from  offering  the  exchange  of  Queens. 

(/i)  We  are  surprised  to  see  that  a  player  of  Mr.  Boden's  standing  should 
have  failed  to  notice  the  superiority  of  the  move  R  to  Q's  5th ;  by  adopting 
it,  Black  must,  certainly,  have  won  the  game. 


GAME    XXVII. 

Between  Morpliy  and  Bird. 
philidoe's  defence. 


WHITE.    Mr.  B. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 
8.  P  to  Q's  4th 

4.  Kt  to  Q  B's  Srd  (a) 

5.  Kt  takes  P 

6.  Kt  to  K  Kt's  Srd 

7.  Kt  to  K's  5th 

8.  Q  B  to  K  Kt's  5th 

9.  Q  Kt  to  K  R's  5th 

10.  Q  to  Q's  2nd  (7>) 

11.  P  to  K  Kt's  4th 

12.  Kt  takes  Kt 

13.  Kt  to  K's  5th 

14.  B  to  K's  ;!iid 

15.  Kt  takes  Kt 

16.  Q  B  to  K's  Srd 

17.  Castles  (Q  R) 

18.  B  takes  R 

19.  P  to  Q  li's  Srd  (cO 

20.  P  to  Q  Kt's  4th 

21.  KtoB'sCnd 
23.  K  to  Kt's  2nd 

23.  P  takes  B 

24.  Q  takes  B 


BLACK.     Mr.  M. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  P  to  Q's  3rd 

8.  P  to  K  B's  4th 
4.  P  takes  K  P 


5.  P  to  Q's  4th 

6.  P  to  K's  5th 

7.  Kt  to  K  B's  Srd 
S.  B  to  Q's  Srd 

9.  Castles 

10.  Q  to  K's  sq 

11.  Kt  takes  P 

12.  Q  takes  Kt 

13.  Kt  to  Q  B's  Srd 

14.  Q  to  K  R's  6th 

15.  P  takes  Kt 

16.  Q  R  to  Q  Kt's  sq  (c) 

17.  R  takes  K  B  P 
IS.  Qto  QR's  6th 


Q  takes  Q  R  P 
Q  to  Q  R's  Sth  (ch.) 
Q  to  Q  R's  5th  ( ch.) 
B  takes  Q  Kt  P 
R  takes  P  (ch.) 


24.  Q  takes  Q  (ch.) 


MORPHYS  GAMES  OF  CHESS. 


25.  K  to  B's  2na 

26.  B  takes  P 

27.  E  to  Q's  3rd  (e) 
2S.  K  to  Q's  2nd 
29.  K  to  Q's  sq 

SO.  Eesi^ns. 


25.  P  to  K's  6th 

26.  B  to  K  B's  4th  (ch.) 

27.  Qto  QB's5th(di.) 
2S.  Q  to  Q  li's  Tth  ((.-h.) 
29.  Q  to  Q  Kt's  Sth  (ch.) 


(a)  P  takes  K  P  is  the  correct  move  here,  and  gives  the  first  player  the 
better  game. 

(6)  Taking  Kt  with  either  Bishop  or  Knight  would  have  been  playing 
Black's  game. 

(c)  Tlie  key-move  of  a  most  masterly  combination,  of  which  we  cannot 
speak  too  highly.  The  brilliancy  and  accuracy  of  the  succeeding  moves 
deserve  the  closest  attention. 

(d)  We  see  no  other  mode  of  averting  the  threatened  danger. 

(e)  Had  the  B  been  interposed,  the  check  at  Q  B's  5th  with  Queen  would 
have  won  the  piece. 


GAME    XXVIII. 

This  game  was  played  at  Versailles,  by  Mr.  Morphy, 
blindfold,  against  M.  Chamouillet  and  the  members  of  the 
Cercle  des  Echecs  of  that  city  in  consultation : 


lEEEGIJLAB  OPENING. 


WHITE.      Mr.  M. 

1,  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  P  to  Q's  4th 
8.  P  takes  P 

4.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

5.  B  to  Q's  3rd 

6.  Castles 

7.  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

8.  P  takes  P 

9.  B  to  K  Kt's  5th 

10.  Q  to  Q's  2nd 

11.  Q  R  to  Q's  sq 

12.  K  E  to  Ivssq 

13.  Qto  K  B's  4th 

14.  Q  to  K  R's  4th 

15.  P  to  K  Kt's  4th 

16.  P  to  K  Es  8rd 

17.  P  to  Q  E"s  Srd 

18.  Q  Kt  to  K's  2nd  (&) 

19.  Kt  to  K  B's  4th 

20.  Kt  takes  B  (d) 

21.  E  takes  P 

22.  E  takes  P  (ch.)  (e) 

23.  Q  takes  P 

24.  Kt  takes  B 

25.  Q  to  K  E's  6tl5  (ch.) 

26.  E  to  Kt's  Sth  (ch.) 


BLACK.      M.  C,  &C. 

1.  P  to  K's  3rd 

2.  P  to  Q's  4th 

3.  P  takes  P 

4.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

5.  B  to  Q's  Srd 

6.  Castles 

7.  P  to  Q  B's  4th 

8.  B  takes  P 

9.  B  to  K's  Srd 

10.  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

11.  B  to  K's  2nd 

12.  P  to  Q  E's  Srd 

13.  Kt  to  K  E's  4th 

14.  P  to  K  Kt's  Srd 

15.  Kt  to  K  B's  Srd  (a) 

16.  E  to  QB'ssq 

17.  E  to  K's  sq 
IS.  P  to  K  E's  4th 

19.  Kt  to  K  E's  2nd  (c) 

20.  P  takes  Kt 

21.  B  takes  B 
23.  K  to  B's  sq 
23.  E  to  Q  B's  2nd 

24  K  E  to  K's  2nd  (/) 
25.  K  to  K's  so 


And  White  mates  in  three  moves. 


MORPHY  S    GAMES    OF    CHESS. 


{a)  Kt  to  K  Kt"s  2nd  appears  a  stronger  more. 

(b)  This  Knight,  -which  for  some  time  has  occupied  a  comi 
useless  position,  now  takes  up  a  post  where   it  promises   to  be  higiily 
eli'ective. 

(c)  A  weak  move ;  hut  "White's  game  was  already  a  very  superior  one— 
the  Knight  has  been  admirably  handled. 

(d)  The  correct  move ;  but  one  that,  it  would  seem,  the  allies  had  alto- 
gether overlooked. 

(e)  The  deciding  coup. 

(/)  Had  Black  taken  Kt  with  Kt,  White  would  have  easily  won  with 
Q  to  K  R's  6th,  &c. 


GAME    XXIX. 

Between  Morpliy  and  Kipping. 


EVANS'    GAMBIT. 


WHITE.     Mr.  K. 

^.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  Kt  to  K  B's  .3rd 

3.  B  to  Q  B's  4  th 

4.  P  to  Q  Kt's  4th 

5.  P  to  Q  B's  3rd 

6.  P  to  Q's  4th 

7.  P  takes  P 
S.  P  to  Q's  5th 
9.  B  to  Q's  3rd 

10.  P  to  K  R's  3rd 

11.  B  to  Q  Kt's  2nd 

12.  Castles 

13.  Q  to  Q's  2nd 

14.  Kt  to  Q  R's  3rd 

15.  K  E  to  K's  sq 

16.  K  B  takes  P 

17.  B  takes  B 
IS.  li  to  K's  4th 

19.  B  to  Q  B's  3rd  (h) 

20.  Kt  to  Q  B's  2nd 

21.  Qto  K  Kt's  5th 

22.  Q  R  to  K's  sq 

23.  R  takes  R 

24.  Q  to  K  Kt's  4th 

25.  R  tn  K's  6  th 

26.  Q  Kt  to  Q's  4th 

27.  Q  to  K  Kt's  6th 

28.  Q  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

29.  Kt  takes  Kt 

30.  Kt  to  Q's  Sth 


BLACK.     Mr.  M. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  Kt  to  Q  Bs  3rd 

3.  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

4.  B  takes  P 

5.  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

6.  P  takes  P 

7.  B  to  Q  Kt's  8rd 

8.  Kt  to  Q  R's  4th 

9.  P  to  Q's  3rd 

10.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

11.  Castles 

12.  Kt  to  K  R's  4th  (fl) 

13.  P  to  K  B's  4th 

14.  Kt  to  K  Kt's-6th 

15.  P  takes  P 

16.  Q  B  to  K  B's  4th 

17.  Kt  takes  B 
IS.  Q  to  Q's  2nd 

19.  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

20.  P  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

21.  Q  R  to  K's  sq 

22.  R  takes  R 

23.  P  to  K  Rs  3rd 

24.  R  to  K  B's  2nd 

25.  P  to  Q  B's  3rd 

26.  P  takes  P 

27.  K  Kt  to  K's  2nd 

28.  Q  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

29.  Q  takes  R 

30.  Q  to  K  Kt's  3rd 


And  White  resigns. 


(a)  A  good  movfi ;  it  frees  the  K  B  P,  and  threatens  Kt  to  Zt's  6th  or 
B's  Sth,  which  might  either  of  them  be  played  with  advantage. 

(ft)  Kt  to  Q  B's '2nd,  and  then  B  to  Q  B's  3rd,  would  certainly  have  been 
better  play. 


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morphy's  games  of  chess. 


GAME    XXX. 

Consultation  game  played  at  the  London  Chess  Club, 
between  Messrs.  Morphy,  George  "Walker,  and  Greena- 
way,  against  Messrs.  Mongredien,  Lowenthal,  and  Medley. 


BISHOP  S    GAMBIT. 


WHITE.     Mr.  Morphy. 

1.  P  to  irs  4th 

2.  P  to  K  B'3  4th 

3.  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

4.  B  takes  P 

5.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd  (a) 

6.  P  takes  Kt 

7.  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

8.  P  to  Q's  4th 

9.  Q  to  K's  2nd  (ch.) 

10.  Castles 

11.  Q  to  Q  Kt's  5th 

12.  Q  to  Q"s  5th 

13.  Kt  to  K's  5th 

14.  B  to  Q's  '2nd 

15.  Q  to  Q  B^s  4th 

16.  Q  E  to  K's  sq 

17.  Kt  to  Q  E's  4th 

18.  Kt  to  Q  B's  5th 

19.  R  to  K  B's  3rd 

20.  Pv  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 


BLACK.     Mr.  Mongredien. 

1.  P  to  K's  4lh 

2.  P  takes  P 

3.  P  to  Qs  4th 

4.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

5.  Kt  takes  B 

6.  Q  takes  P 

7.  Q  to  K  E's  4th 

8.  B  to  Q's  3rd 

9.  K  to  Q's  sq 

10.  P  to  Jv  Kfs  4th 

11.  P  to  K  B's  4th  (b) 

12.  Kt  to  Q  B  s  3rd 

13.  E  to  K  B's  sq  (c) 

14.  Kt  to  K's  2nd 

15.  E  to  K  B's  3rd 

16.  P  to  Q  B-s  3rd 

17.  B  to  Q's  2nd  {d) 

18.  B  to  Q  B's  sq 

19.  P  to  K  Kfs  5th 

20.  P  to  Q  Kt's  3rd  (e) 


(a)  The  move  recommended  by  the  authors  is  Q  to  K  B's  3rd.  but  we 
decidedly  prefer  the  one  in  the  text :  it  was  first  adopted  by  Herr  Anders- 
sen. 

(b)  Much  better  than  moving  P  to  K  E's  3rd,  as,  in  tliat  case,  White 
might  have  advantageously  replied  with  Kt  to  K's  5th. 

(c)  This  move  was  necessary,  as  it  prevented  the  Knight  from  being 
played  to  B's  7th,  and  brought  the  Eook  into  immediate  and  active  opera- 
tion. 

(rf)  Black  miglit  with  perfect  safety  have  played  P  to  Q  Kt's  3rd.  The 
Wliite  allies  coukl  not  have  ventured  upon  the  'capture  of  the  Q  B's  P,  as 
they  would  have  subjected  themselves  to  a  strong  and  embarrassing  attack. 
Thus: 

3  17.  P  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

'■■  18.  Kt  takes  P  (ch.)  IS.  Kt  takes  Kt 

19.  Q  takes  Kt  19.  P  to  K  B's  6th 

20.  P  to  K  Kt's  3rd  (or  A)  20.  E  to  K  E's  8rd 

21.  E  to  B's  2nd  21.  E  takes  K  Kt  P,  winning 


20.  Q  takes  K  B  P 

21.  K  to  B's  2nd 

22.  K  to  K's  2nd  (best) 

23.  K  to  Q's  sq 


(A) 


20.  Q  takes  E  P  (ch.) 

21.  Q  to  E's  5th  (ch.) 

22.  B  to  E's  3rd  (ch.) 

23.  E  to  K  B's  sq 


"With  a  fino  attacking  game. 


(e)  At  this  point,  owing  to  the  lateness  of  the  hour,  the  game  was  gireB 
up  by  mutual  consent  as  a  draw.    It  appears  to  us,  however,  that  JBlacIi 


MORPHYS    GAMES    OF    CHESS. 


49 


have  the  better  game, 
tinuation : 


Probably  the  following  would  have  been  its  con- 


21.  Q  Kt  to  Q's  3rd  (or  A) 

22.  B  to  K  B's  4th  (best). 

22.  P  to  K  Kfs  3rd 

23.  Kt  takes  P 


21.  P  toKB'a6th 
If 

22.  P  to  K  B's  5th 


(If  B  takes  P,  then  Q  to  E's  6th,  winning.) 

23.  P  to  B's  7th  (ch.) 


24.  K  takes  P 

25.  K  to  K"s  3rd 

26.  Kt  takes  Kt  (best) 

27.  K  to  Q's  3rd 
2S.  K  to  B's  3rd 

24.  Q  takes  P  (ch.) 

25.  Kt  to  Q's  4th  (ch.) 

26.  Q  to  B's  7th  (ch.) 

27.  B  to  B's  5th  (ch.) 

28.  P  takes  Kt,  and  must  win 
22.  B  to  Q  Kt's  2nd 

With 

a  fine 

game. 

21.  B  takes  P 

22.  Kt  to  B  7th  (ch.) 

23.  Q  takes  Q 

24.  B  takes  B 

(A) 

21.  P  takes  Kt 

22.  Q  takes  Kt 

23.  E  takes  Q 

24.  P  takes  P 

With  a  Pawn  ahead. 


GAME    XXXI. 

Bet-ween  Morphj  and  Barnes. 


ETJY   LOPEZ   OPENING. 


-v^HiTE.    Mr.  B. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

3.  B  to  Q  Kt's  5th 
4  P  to  Q's  4th 

5.  P  to  K's  5th. 

6.  Castles 

7.  B  to  Q  E's  4th 

8.  B  takes  Kt 
9.*Kt  takes  P 

10.  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd  (6) 

11.  B  to  K's  8rd 

12.  P  takes  P 

13.  Q  to  K's  2nd 

14.  K  to  K  E's  sq 

15.  Q  to  E  Q's  sq 

16.  P  to  K  B's  4th 

17.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 
IS.  B  takes  Kt 

19.  Kt  to  K's  4th 

20.  Q  Kt  to  K  Kt's  5th 

21.  Q  to  Q  B's  4th  (ch.) 

22.  Kt  to  K  B's  7th  (ch.) 

23.  Q  Kt  to  K's  5th 

24.  Kt  takes  B 

25.  Kt  to  K's  5th 


BLACK.      Mr.  M. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

3.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd  (a) 

4.  P  takes  P 

5.  Kt  to  K's  5th 

6.  P  to  Q  E's  3rd 

7.  Kt  to  Q  B's  4th 

8.  Q  P  takes  B 

9.  B  to  K's  2ud 

10.  Castles 

11.  P  to  K  B's  3rd 

12.  E  takes  P 

13.  E  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

14.  B  to  Q's  3rd 

15.  Q  to  K  E's  5th 

16.  B  to  K  Kt's  5th 

17.  Q  to  K  E's  4th 

18.  B  takes  B 

19.  B  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

20.  P  to  K  E's  3rd 

21.  K  to  K  E's  sq 

22.  K  to  K  E's  2nd 

23.  E  to  K  B's  3rd 

24.  Q  takes  Kt 

25.  Q  to  K's  Srd 


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MORPHY  S    GAMES    OF    CHESS. 


26.  Q  to  K's  4th  (ch.) 

26.-QtoKB'3  4tli 

27.  Q  takes  Q(ch.) 

27.  E  takes  Q 

2S.  P  to  K  Kt's  4th 

28.  E  to  K  B's  3rd 

29.  PtoKB's5th 

29.  E  to  K's  sq  (c) 

80.  Kt  to  K  Kt's  6th 

30.  E  to  K's  7tU 

81.  E  to  Q's  Slh 

31.  E  tiikes  Kt  {d) 

82.  P  takes  Pv  (ch.) 

32.  K  takes  P 

33.  E  to  Q's  7  th 

33.  E  takes  Q  B  P 

34.  K  E  to  K  B's  7th 

34.  B  to  Q's  5th 

35.  E  takes  Q  B  P 

35.  E  takes  Q  Kt  P 

86.  E  takes  Q  Kt  P 

36.  E  takes  Q  E  P 

37.  P  to  K  E's  4th 

37.  P  to  Q  R's  4th  (e) 

8S.  P  to  K  E's  5th  (ch.)  (/) 

38.  K  to  K  Kt's  4th 

39.  E  takes  K  Kt  P  (ch.) 

89.  K  to  K  E's  5th 

40.  Q  E  to  K's  7th 

40.  P  to  Q  E's  5th 

And  White 

resigns. 

(a)  "Wo  much  prefer  P  to  Q  E's  3r(I,  and  then  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd. 

(&)  P  to  K  B's  4th  would,  perhaps,  have  been  more  attackinsr. 

(c)  From  this  point  to  the  end  the  game  is  conducted  by  Mr.  Morphy  in 
a  very  masterly  style. 

((/)  Black's  Edok  and  Bishop  are  so  advantageously  placed,  that  the  sac- 
rifice of  the  Eook  m-.is  perfectly  sound. 

(e)  We  beg  our  readers  will  bestow  close  attention  on  this  move;  it  appears 
most  unimportant,  but  is  a  link  in  the  chain  of  the  combination  of  high 
value,  and  brings  the  game  to  a  speedy  and  successful  termination. 

(/)  Mr.  Barnes  was'evidently  impressed  with  the  idea  that  moving  the 
King  either  to  E's  '2nd  or  Kf  s  4th  would  be  equally  disadvantageous  for 
Black,  overlooking  the  effect  of  K  to  E's  5th,  in  case  the  latter  move  were 
adopted,  whether  the  Bishop  were  exchanged  for  the  Eook  or  not 


GAME    XXXII. 
Between  Morphj  and  Barnes. 


IREEGULAR   OPENING. 


BLACK.     Mr.  M. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  P  to  Q's  4th 

3.  B  to  Q's  3rd 

4.  B  to  K's  3rd 

6.  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

6.  Kt  takes  P 

7.  KttoKE'sSrd 

8.  Q  to  K  E's  5th  (ch.) 

9.  Q  to  K  E's  6th 

10.  Q  to  K  E's  4th 

11.  Castles  (K  E) 

12.  P  to  Q  B's  4th 

13.  P  takes  Kt 

14.  Q  Kt  to  K  Kfs  5th 

15.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

16.  Q  takes  Q 

17.  B  to  Q  B's  2nd  (o) 

18.  P  takes  P 

19.  Kt  takes  B 

20.  K  £  to  K's  sq 


WHITE.     Mr.  B. 
P  to  K  B's  3rd  (a) 
P  to  K's  3rd 
Kt  to  K's  2nd 
P  to  Q's  4th 
P  takes  P 
Kt  to  Q's  4th 
B  to  K's  2nd 

8.  P  to  Kt's  3rd 

9.  B  to  K  B's  sq 

10.  B  to  K  Kt's  2nd 

11.  Castles 

12.  Kt  takes  B 

13.  P  to  K  B's  4th 

14.  P  to  K  E's  3rd 

15.  P  to  K's  4th  (fi) 

16.  E  takes  Q 

17.  P  takes  P 

18.  B  takes  P  (ch.) 

19.  E  takes  Kt 

20.  KtoKB'8  2a4 


MORPHYS    GAMES    OF    CHESS.  51 

21.  P  to  Q  E's  5th  21.  B  to  K's  3rd 

22.  Q  E  to  Q-s  sq  22.  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

23.  K  takes  li  23.  Kt  takes  R 

24.  B  to  Q  E's  4th  24.  T  to  K  Kt's  4th 

25.  R  to  Q's  sq  25.  R  to  Q's  sq 

26.  P  to  Q  R"s  3rd  26.  P  to  K  B's  5th 

27.  Kt  to  K  B's  2nd  27.  Kt  to  K's  7th  (ch.) 

28.  K  to  K  B"s  sq  2S.  R  takes  R  (ch.) 

29.  B  takes  R  29.  Kt  to  Q's  5th 

30.  K  to  K's  sq  30.  K  to  K  B's  3rd 

31.  K  to  Q's  2nd  31.  Kt  to  Q  Kt's  6th  (ch.) 

32.  B  takes  Kt  32.  B  takes  B 

33.  Kt  to  K  Kt's  4th  (ch.)  33.  K  to  Kt's  3rd 

34.  P  to  K  Kt's  3rd  34.  P  to  K  R's  4th 

35.  Kt  to  K  B's  2nd  35.  K  to  K  B's  4th 

36.  K  to  Q  B's  3rd  36.  B  to  Q's  4th 
87.  K  to  Q"s  4th  37.  P  to  Q  B's  3rd 
3S.  P  to  Q  Kt's  4th  3S.  B  to  K  Kt's  7th 

39.  P  takes  P  39.  K  takes  P 

40.  P  to  Q  R's  4th  40.  B  to  K  B's  Sth 

41.  Kt  to  K's  4th  41.  P  to  K  R's  5th 

42.  Kt  to  Q's  2nd  42.  B  to  K's  7th 

.  43.  Kt  to  K's  4th  43.  P  to  K  Kfs  5tb 

44.  Kt  to  K  B's  2nd  44.  K  to  B's  6th 

45.  Kt  to  K's  4th  45.  B  to  K  B's  Sth 

46.  K  to  K's  5th  46.  B  to  Q's  6ih 

47.  Kt  to  K  Kt's  4th  (ch.)  47.  K  to  K  Kfs  7th 

48.  K  to  Q's  6th  48.  K  takes  R  P 

49.  K  to  Q  Bs  7th  49.  K  to  Kt's  6th 

50.  Kt  takes  Q  Kt  P  50.  P  to  K  R's  6th  (d) 

And  Black  resigns. 

(a)  Mr.  Morphy  is  very  ■n-ell  acquainted  with  all  the  book  openings,  and 
Mr.  Barnes,  probably,  adopted  this  unusual  mode  of  defence,  in  order  to  at 
once  throw  his  adversary  on  his  own  resources. 

(h)  White  might  have  won  the  piece  here  by  P  to  K  Kt's  4th,  but  thought, 
no  doubt,  that  thereby  his  King  would  be  too  much  exposed.  The  move  in 
the  text  is  a  good  one,  and  wins  a  clear  Pawn. 

(c)  This  was  compulsory. 

(d)  Mr.  Bai-nes  conducted  the  whole  game  with  both  skill  and  prudence. 


GAME  XXXIII. 

Between  Morphy  and  Baucher. 

king's  gambit. 

WHITE.     Mr.  B.  BLACK.     Mr.  M. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th  1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  P  to  K  B's  4th  2.  P  takes  P 

3.  Kt  to  K  B's  2nd  3.  P  to  K  Kt's  4th 

4.  P  to  K  R's  4th  4.  P  to  K  Kt's  5th 

5.  Kt  to  K's  5th            -  5.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

6.  Kt  takes  Kt  P  6.  Kt  takes  K  P 

7.  P  to  Q's  3rd  7.  Kt  to  Kt's  6th 

8.  B  takes  P  8.  Kt  takes  R  (a) 

9.  Q  to  K's  2nd  (ch.)  9.  Q  to  K's  2nd 
10.  Kt  to  B's  6th  (ch.)  10.  K  to  Q's  sq 


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MORPHY  S  GAMES  OF  CHESS. 


11.  B  takes  Q  B  P  (cb.) 

11.  K  takes  B 

12.  Kt  to  Q's  5th  (ch.) 

12.  K  to  Q's  sq 

13.  Kt  takes  Q 

13.  B  takes  Kt  (p) 

14.  Q  to  K  Kfs  4th 

14.  P  to  Q's  3rd  (c) 

15.  Q  to  K  B's  4th 

15.  E  to  K  Kfs  sq 

16.  Ktto  Q  B's  3rd 

16.  B  to  K's  3rd 

17.  B  to  K's  2nd 

17.  Kt  to  Q  B's  Srd 

18.  Castles 

IS.  Kt  to  K  Kfs  6th 

19.  B  to  K  B's  3rd 

19.  Kt  to  K  B's  4th  (d) 

20.  P  to  Q-s  4th 

20.  Kt  takes  K  E  P 

21.  K  to  Kt 

21.  Kt  takes  B 

22.  P  takes  Kt 

22.  P  to  Qs  4th 

23.  Kt  to  Q  Kt's  5th 

28.  R  to  Q  B's  sq 

24.  P  to  Q  Bs  4th 

24  K  to  Q's  2nd 

25.  P  takes  P 

25.  B  takes  P 

26.  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

26.  B  to  Q's  3rd 

27.  Q  to  K  Bs  5th  (ch.) 

27.  B  to  K's  Srd 

28.  Q  to  Q  Kt's  5tli 

2S.  K  to  B's  2nd 

29.  K  to  It's  sq 

29.  B  to  Q's  2nd 

80.  Kt  to  Q"s  5th  (ch.) 

80.  K  to  Kfs  sq 

31.  Kt  to  B"s  6th 

81.  K  R  to  Qs  sq 

82.  P  to  Q's  5th  (e) 

82.  Kt  to  K's  4th 

33.  Q  to  K's  2nd 

83.  B  to  K  B's  4th 

84.  Kt  to  K's  4th 

84  B  takes  Kt 

85.  P  takes  B 

85.  Kt  to  Q  B's  5th 

86.  11  to  Q  B's  sq 

36.  P  to  Q  Kfs  4tli  (/) 

37.  P  to  K's  5th 

87.  Kt  takes  K  P 

88.  Q  takes  P  (ch.) 

88.  K  to  R's  sq 

39.  KtoQ-ssq 

89.  R  to  Q  B's  7th 

40.  Q  to  K's  6ih 

40.  P  to  K  B's  4th 

41.  K  to  Kfs  sq 

41.  R  to  Q  B's  2nd 

42.  R  to  K  B's  sq 

42.  Kt  to  Q  B's  5  th 

43.  R  to  K  B-s  2nd 

43.  R  to  Q  Kfs  sq 

44  P  to  Q  Kfs  3rd 

44.  B  to  Q  R's  6th 

And  White  resigns. 

(a)  The  line  of  play  recommended  hero  is  : 

8.  Q  to  K's  2nd  (ch.) 
9.  B  to  K's  2nd  9.  Q  to  Q  Kfs  5th  (ch.) 

10.  B  to  Q's  2nd  10.  Q  to  Q  Kfs  Srd,  &c. 

(h)  This  mode  of  play  is  not  usual,  but  Black  gains  by  it  a  full  equivalent 
for  his  lost  Queen,  and  as  White  cannot  retard  the  development  of  Black's 
pieces  on  the  right  wing,  the  latter's  game  might  be  taken  for  choice. 

(c)  R  to  K  isalso  an  effective  move. 

{d)  The  game  of  the  second  player  is  now  well  developed.  His  pieces 
are  ready  to  act  in  combination,  and  he  has  the  advantage  both  in  force  and 
position. 

(e)  White  prosecutes  the  attack  with  undeniable  spirit  and  energy,  and 
it  might  have  proved  successful  against  a  less  formidable  antagonist." 

(/)  B  to  K  B's  4th  might  also  have  been  played  with  advantage,  aa 
Wliite  would  have  incurred  the  loss  of  his  Queen  if  he  had  ventured  oa 
capturing  the  Knight 


MORPHY  S  GAMES  OF  CHESS. 


53 


GAME    XXXIV. 

Between  Morphy  and  Journoud. 

SICILIAN  DEFENCE. 


WHITE.    Mr.  M. 

BLACK.      Ml 

P  to  K's  4th 

1.  P  to  Q  B's  4th 

P  10  Q"s  4th 

2.  P  takes  P 

Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

8.  P  to  K's  4th 

K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

4.  B  to  K's  2nd 

P  to  Q  B's  3rd 

5.  P  to  Q's  3rd 

Q  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

6.  P  takes  P 

K  B  takes  P  (ch.) 

7.  K  to  B's  sq 

Q  Kt  takes  P 

8.  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

B  takes  Kt 

9.  E  takes  B 

Castles 

10.  Q  to  K's  sq 

Kt  to  K  Kt's  5th 

11.  B  takes  Kt 

B  takes  B 

12.  B  to  K's  3rd 

Kt  to  Q's  5th 

13.  P  to  K  E's  Srd 

P  to  K  Bs  4th 

14.  Q  to  Q's  2nd 

P  takes  K  P  (dis.  ch.) 

15.  K  to  K's  sq 

Kt  to  Q  B's  7  th  (ch.) 

16.  Q  takes  Kt 

Q  takes  B  (ch.) 

And  Black 

resigns. 

GAME    XXXV. 

The  following  game  was  played  by  consultation  at  tlie 
London  Chess  Club,  between  Messrs.  Morphy  and  Mon- 
gredien  (the  President  of  the  Club),  and  Messrs.  Medley 
(the  Secretary)  and  Herr  Lowenthal : 

PHILIDOE's    DEFENCE. 


WHITE.    Medley  &  L. 

BLACK.     Morphy  &  Mong. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  Kt  to  K  Bs  Srd 

2.  P  to  Q's  Srd 

8.  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

3.  P  to  K  B's  4th 

4.  P  to  Q's  4th 

4.  Kt  to  Q  B's  Srd 

5.  P  takes  K  P 

5.  Q  P  takes  P 

6.  Q  takes  Q  (ch.) 

6.  Kt  takes  Q 

7.  Kt  takes  P 

7.  P  takes  P 

8.  Q  B  to  Q's  2nd 

8.  K  B  to  Q's  3rd 

9.  B  to  Q  B's  Srd 

9.  Kt  to  K  B's  Srd 

10.  P  to  K  R's  Srd 

10.  B  to  K's  3rd 

11.  Q  Kt  to  Qs  2nd 

11.  Castles 

12.  Castles  K  R 

12.  Kt  to  Q's  4th 

13.  B  takes  Kt 

13.  B  takes  B 

14.  QKtto  B's  4th  (a) 

14.  P  to  Q  Kt's  4th  a>) 

15.  Kt  takes  B 

15.  P  takes  Kt 

16.  K  Pv  to  Q's  sq 

16.  P  to  K's  6th  (c) 

17.  P  takes  P  (d) 

17.  B  takes  K  Kt's  P 

18.  K  takes  B 

18.  P  takes  Kt 

19.  B  takes  P 

19.  Kt  to  Q  B'8  3rd 

54 

20.  B  to  Q's  4th  (e)  20.  Q  K  to  K's  sq  (/) 

21.  K  E  to  Q's  2ncl  (gr)  21.  Q  R  to  K^s  3rd  (h) 

22.  Q  R  to  K's  sq  (i)  22.  R  to  K  Kt's  3rd  (ch.) 

23.  K  to  R's  2nd  23.  K  R  to  K  B's  6th 

24.  R  to  Kt's  2nd  24.  Kt  takes  B 

25.  P  takes  Kt  25.  R  to  K  R's  3rd 

26.  R  to  K's  7th  26.  K  R  takes  P  (ch.) 

27.  K  to  Kt's  sq  27.  R  to  R's  Sth  (ch.) 
2S.  K  to  B's  2nd  2S.  R  to  K  B's  3rd  (ch.) 

29.  K  to  K's  2nd  29.  R  to  B's  2nd 

30.  R  to  K's  Sth  (ch.)  80.  R  to  B's  sq 

And  the  game  was,  by  mutual  consent,  abandoned  as  drawn. 

(a)  The  best  line  of  play,  threatening  to  take  off  the  Bishop,  which  occu- 
pied so  commanding  a  Diagonal,  and  giving  Rook  a  free  range,  Avhen  played 
to  Queen's  square. 

(h)  This  loses  a  valuable  Pawn.  They  should  have  played  Q  B  takes  Kt, 
White,  however,  in  any  case,  would  have  had  a  slight  advantage. 

(c)  The  only  move,  and  one  that  gave  Black  a  chance  to  draw  the  game 
if  it  were  not  jiroperly  opposed. 

(d)  The  AVliite  allies  did  not  sufficiently  consider  this  move,  otherwise 
they  would  not  have  missed  the  opportunity  they  had  of  securing  a  mani- 
fest advantage,  as  follows: 

17.  R  takes  B  17.  P  takes  P  (ch.)  (best) 

IS.  K  to  B's  sq  18.  P  takes  Kt 

19.  R  takes  P  19.  R  to  Q  B's  sq 
If  19.  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

20.  R  takes  Q  Kt's  P,  and  Black's  K  B  P  cannot  be  long  maintained. 

20.  R  takes  Q  Kt  P  20.  R  to  Q  B's  2nd 

21.  Q  R  to  Q's  sq 

And  Black's  advanced  Pawn  must  eventually  be  lost. 

(e)  The  correct  move  was  B  to  K  B's  4th,  retaining  the  advantage  of  the 
Pawn  with  the  better  position. 

(/)  "Well  played.    Taking  prompt  advantage  of  "White's  last  move. 
(g)  The  only  move  to  avoid  the  loss  of  a  Pawn. 

(h)  Black  might  have  immediately  regained  the  Pawn  by  the  following 
line  of  play,  viz: 

21.  Kt  takes  B 

22.  P  takes  Kt  (best)  22.  R  to  K's  6th 

And  then  K  R  to  K  B's  6th;  but  they,  probably,  apprehended  danger  from 
the  advance  of  the  Queen's  Pawn. 
(i)  This,  on  examination,  will  be  found  the  correct  move. 


GAME    XXXVI. 

Between  Morphy  and  Barnes, 
philidoe's  defence. 

WHITE.      Mr.  B.  BLACK.      Mr.  M« 

1.  P  to  K's  4th  1,  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd  2.  P  to  Q's  3rd 

3.  P  to  Q's  4th  8.  P  to  K  B's  4th 

4.  P  takes  K  P  4.  K  B  P  takes  P 

5.  Kt  to  Kt's  5th  5.  P  to  Q's  4th 

6.  P  to  K's  6th  6.  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

7.  Kt  to  K  B'a  7tli  t.  Q  to  K  B's  3rd 


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8.  B  to  K's  3rd 

9.  BtoKKt's5th' 

10.  Kt  takes  E 

11.  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

12.  Kt  to  K  B's  7th 

13.  E  to  K  B's  sq 

14.  P  to  K  B's  3rd 

15.  Kt  to  Q  R's  ord 

16.  B  takes  B 

17.  Q  takes  Kt  (&) 
IS.  Castles 

19.  B  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

20.  K  to  Q  Kt's  sq 

21.  Kt  to  K's  5th 

22.  Kt  to  Q's  3rd 

23.  Kt  takes  B 


8.  P  to  Q's  5th 

9.  Q  to  K  B's  4th 

10.  Q  takes  B 

11.  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

12.  Q  takes  K  Kt  P 

13.  Kt  to  K  B"s  3rd 

14.  Kt  to  Q  Kt's  5th  (a) 

15.  Q  B  takes  P 

16.  Kt  to  Q's  6th  (ch.) 

17.  P  takes  Q 

18.  B  takes  Kt 

19.  P  to  Q"s  7th  (ch.) 

20.  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

21.  K  to  B's  sq 

22.  E  to  K's  sq 

23.  Q  takes  E 
And  "White  resigns. 


(a)  The  last  move  of  Mr.  Barnes  was  highly  objectionable,  permitting 
Mr.  Morphy  to  form  this  admirable  combination,  which  places  victory  in  his 
hands. 

(&)  Tlie  sacrifice  of  the  Queen  was  forced  as  Black  threatened  B  to  Q  Kt'a 
5th  (ch.)  &c. 


GAME    XXXVII. 

Between  Morphy  and  Bird. 

EVANs'   GAMBIT. 


-w^HiTE.    Mr.  M. 

blace:.     Mr.  B. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

2.  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

8.  K  B  to  Q  Bs  4th 

3.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

4.  P  to  Q  Kt's  4th 

4.  B  takes  Kt  P 

5.  P  to  Q  B's  3rd 

5.  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

6.  P  to  Qs  4th 

6.  P  takes  P 

7.  P  takes  P 

7.  B  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

8.  Castles  (a) 

8.  P  to  Q's  8rd 

9.  P  to  Q's  5th 

9.  Kt  to  Q  E's  4th 

10.  P  to  K's  5th 

10.  Kt  takes  B 

11.  Q  to  Q  E's  4th  (ch.) 

11.  B  to  Q's  2nd 

12.  Q  takes  Kt 

12.  P  takes  P 

13.  Kt  takes  P 

13.  Q  to  K  B's  3rd  (6) 

14.  Kt  takes  B 

14.  K  takes  Kt  (c) 

15.  Q  to  K  Kt's  4th  (ch.) 

15.  K  to  K's  sq 

16.  QB  to  K  Kt'soth 

16.  Q  to  K  Kt's  3rd  (d) 

17.  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

17.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

IS.  Q  E  to  K's  sq  (ch.) 

18.  K  to  B's  sq 

19.  Q  to  Q  Kt's  4th  (ch.) 

19.  K  to  Kt's  sq 

2ft.  B  takes  Kt 

20.  Q  takes  B 

21.  Kt  to  K's  4th 

21.  Q  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

22.  K  to  E's  sq 

22.  P  to  K  E's  4th 

23.  P  to  K  B's  4th 

23.  P  to  K  E's  5th 

24  P  to  K  Bs  5th 

24.  Q  to  K  E's  4th 

25.  E  to  K  B's  4th 

25.  P  to  K  B's  3rd 

26.  Kt  takes  P  (ch.) 

86.  P  takes  Kt 

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27.  R  to  K  Kt's  4th  (ch.) 

28.  Q  takes  Q  (ch.) 

29.  K  to  K's  (3th 

80.  Q  to  K  B's  4th 

81.  K  to  K's  7th  (ch.),  and  wins. 


27.  Q  takes  R 

28.  K  to  B's  sq 

29.  K  to  K  R's  3rd 
80.  K  to  Kt's  2ud 


(a)  Boden,  in  liis  "Popular  Introduction,"  has  suggested  B  to  QKfs  2nd 
here,  a  move  well  worthy  the  attention  of  the  student  A  close  examination 
of  it  has  satisfied  us  that  it  is  correct. 

(&)  Tliis  exposes  Black  to  an  immediate  attack;  the  better  move  would 
have  been  K  Kt  to  B's  3rd. 

(c)  Taking  the  Hook  with  Queen  would  have  been  impolitic,  for  in  that 
case  the  Queen  would  have  been  in  danger  of  being  captured. 

(d)  If  Black  hnd  ventured  to  take  the  Rook,  he  would  have  been  mated 
in  eight  moves,  as  follows: 

16.  Q  takes  R 

17.  R  to  K's  sq  (ch.)  17.  Kt  to  K's  2nd  (best) 

18.  R  takes  Kt  IS.  K  to  B's  sq 

19.  R  takes  P  (ch.)  19.  K  takes  R 

20.  Q  to  K's  6th  (ch.)  20.  K  to  B's  sq 

21.  B  to  K's  7th  (ch.)  21.  K  to  K's  sq 

22.  B  to  K  B's  6th  (dis.  ch.)  22.  K  to  B's  sq 

23.  Q  to  K's  7th  (ch.)  23.  K  moves. 

24.  Q  mates. 


GAME    XXXVIII. 


Between  Morphy  and  Barnes. 
philidor's  defence. 


WHITE.    Mr.  M. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 
8.  P  to  Q's  4th 

4  B  to  Q  B's  4th  (a) 

5.  P  to  Q  B's  3rd 

6.  Q  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

7.  B  takes  P 

8.  Q  takes  Q  Kt  P 

9.  Q  to  Q  Kfs  5th 

10.  Kt  to  K  Kt's  5th 

11.  Q  to  Q  R's  4th  (c) 

12.  Kt  takes  K  P 

13.  Kt  takes  Kt 

14.  Q  to  Q  B's  4th  (ch.) 

15.  Cnstles 

16.  P  to  K  B's  4th 

17.  B  talces  P 

18.  P  to  K  R's  3rd 

19.  Kt  takes  R 

20.  Q  to  Ks  2nd 

21.  R  takes  Kt 

22.  Kt  to  Q  B's  4th 

23.  P  to  Ks  5th 

24.  P  to  K  B's  5th 

25.  Q  to  K  Kt's  4th 


BLACK.      Mr.  B. 

P  to  K's  4th 
P  to  Q's  3rd 
P  takes  P 
B  to  K's  2nd  (6) 
P  to  Q's  6th 
B  to  K's  3rd 
P  takes  B 
Kt  to  Q's  2nd 
9.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

10.  R  to  Q  Kt's  sq 

11.  Castles 

12.  Kt  to  Q  B's  4th  {d) 

13.  P  takes  Kt 

14.  K  to  K  R's  sq 

15.  Kt  to  K  Kt's  5th 

16.  P  to  Q's  7th 

17.  Q  R  takes  Q  Kt  P 

18.  R  takes  B 

19.  Kt  to  K's  6th 

20.  Kt  takes  R 

21.  Q  to  Q's  2nd 

22.  Q  to  Q  Kt's  4th 

23.  B  to  K  R's  5th 

24.  B  to  K's  2nd 
26.  Q  to  Q's  2ad 


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26.  R  to  Q's  sq  (e) 

27.  Q  takes  Q 
2S.  R  to  Q's  7th 
29.  P  to  K's  Gth 


26.  Q  takes  K  B  P 

27.  E  takes  Q 

28.  B  to  K  B's  sq 


And  Black  resigns. 


(rt)  This  mode  of  resolving  the  opening  into  a  Scotch  game  is  quite  sound. 
Our  readers  may  rememberthat  it  was  adopted  in  one  of  the  consultation 
games  between  Staunton  and  Lowenthal  at  the  St.  George's. 

(b)  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd  is  the  correct  play. 

(c)  Keeping  the  Knight  confined  and  powerless  to  defend  the  threatened 
King's  Pawn. 

{ci)  Under  the  circumstances  this  was  the  proper  move. 

(e)  Finely  played ;  the  sacrifice  of  the  Pawn  and  exchange  of  the  Queens 
renders  Black  unable  to  stop  the  King's  Pawn  from  Queening,  excepting 
with  the  loss  of  a  piece. 


GAME     XXXIX. 

Between  Morphy  and  Zipping. 

EVANS'    GAMBIT. 


WHITE.     Mr.  M. 

BLACK.     Mr.  K. 

1.  P  to  Q's  4th 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

2.  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

3.  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

3.  B  to  Q  Bs  4th 

4.  P  to  Q  Kt's  4th 

4.  B  takes  P 

5.  P  to  Q  B's  3rd 

5.  B  to  Q  R's  4th 

6.  P  to  Q's  4th 

6.  P  takes  P 

7.  Castles 

7.  P  to  Q's  3rd 

8.  Q  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

6.  Q  to  K  B's  3rd 

9.  P  to  K's  5th                                ' 

9.  P  takes  P 

10.  B  to  K  Kt's  5th 

10.  Q  to  K  B's  4th 

11.  Kt  takes  K  P 

11.  Kt  takes  Kt  (a) 

12.  R  to  K's  sq 

12.  B  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

13.  P  to  K  B's  4th 

13.  P  takes  P  (dis.  ch.) 

14.  K  to  E's  sq 

14.  B  to  Q's  5th 

15.  Kt  takes  P 

15.  KtoB'ssq 

16.  Q  R  to  Q's  sq 

16.  Kt  takes  B  (&) 

17.  Q  takes  Kt 

17.  B  to  K's  3rd  (c) 

IS.  Q  takes  B 

IS.  P  to  K  B's  3rd 

19.  Kt  to  K's  4th 

19.  P  to  Q  Kfs  3rd  (cZ) 

20.  Kt  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

20.  Q  to  Q  B's  4th 

21.  Q  takes  Q 

21.  P  takes  Q 

22.  R  takes  B 

22.  P  takes  B 

23.  P  takes  P 

23.  P  to  K  Kt's  Srd 

24.  P  to  K  R's  4th 

24.  K  to  B's  2nd 

25.  R  to  K's  5th 

25.  P  to  K  R's  Srd 

26.  Kt  to  K's  4th 

26.  P  takes  P 

27.  Kt  takes  P  (ch.) 

27.  K  to  B's  Srd 

2S.  R  to  K's  6th  (ch.) 

28.  K  to  B's  4th 

29.  R  to  Q's  5th  (ch.) 

29.  K  to  B's  5th 

80.  R  to  K's  4th  (ch.),  and  wins. 

(a)  Black  might  have  taken  Kt  with  Queen  without  fear.    Had  White 
continued  the  attack  (as  he  probably  intended  to  have  done)  with  B  takes 

3* 


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K  B's  (ch.),  K  moves  to  Bishop's  square,  and  the  position  In  no  wise  com- 
pensates him  for  the  loss  of  the  piece. 

(6)  If  Black  had  played  P  to  Q  B's  4th,  White  would  have  captured  B 
with  E,  and  tlius  gained  an  advantage. 

(c)  Atteniptingto  eave  the  Bishop  would  have  cost  the  game  at  once. 

(d)  Had  Black  taken  the  Bishop,  White  would  have  retaken  the  Pawn 
with  Kt,  and  won  without  difficulty. 


GAME    XL. 

Between  Morphy  and  Medley. 


KING'S   GAMBIT. 


WHITE.    Mr.  Morphy. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  P  to  K  B's  4th 
8.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

4.  P  to  K  R's  4th 

5.  Kt  to  K"s  5th 

6.  B  to  Q  B's  4th  (5) 

7.  P  takes  P 

8.  P  to  Q's  4th 

9.  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd  (d) 

10.  Kt  to  K's  2nd 

11.  Q  Kt  takes  P 

12.  Kt  to  R's  5th  (f) 

13.  B  to  K  Kfs  5th 

14.  P  to  Q  Bs  3rd 

15.  Castles 

16.  R  takes  B  (7t) 

17.  Q  takes  P 

18.  R  to  K 

19.  Q  to  B's  Srd 

20.  B  checks 

21.  P  takes  P 

22.  Kt  takes  P 

23.  B  takes  Kt,  and  wins 


BLACK.    Mr.  Medley. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  P  takes  P 

3.  P  to  K  Kt's  4th 

4.  P  toK  Kt's  5  th 

5.  Kt  to  K  Bs  3rd  (a) 

6.  P  to  Q's  4th 

7.  B  to  Q's  3rd 

8.  Kt  to  K  K's  4th  (c) 

9.  B  to  K  B's  4th  (e) 

10.  Q  to  K  B's  Srd 

11.  Kt  to  Kt's  6th 
l-,>.  Kt  takes  Kt 

13.  B  ciiecks  {g) 

14.  Q  to  Q's  Srd 

15.  K  Kt  to  Kt's  2nd 

16.  Kt  lakes  R 

17.  Kt  to  K's  2nd 
IS.  P  to  K  R's  4th 

19.  R  to  R's  2nd 

20.  P  to  B's  Srd 

21.  P  takes  P 

22.  Kt  takes  Kt 


(a)  The  old  line  of  defence,  and  the  one  laid  down  in  the  books,  is  P  to  K 
K's  4th.  It  originated  with  Cozio,  and  was  analyzed  fally  by  Allgaier  and 
Kieseretzky,  and  until  lately  was  considered  the  best  that  could  be  adopted. 
Cozio,  in  hfs  "II  Giuoco  deuli  Scacchi,"  1766,  also  recommends  Q  to  K's  2nd 
here,  and  proves  that  Black  thereby  gets  the  better  game.  Salvio  suggests 
B  to  K's  2nd,  and  Kieseretzky  P  to  Q's  Srd.  Philidor,  in  his  analysis,  gave 
the  move  in  tlie  text,  Kt  to  K  B's  Srd,  and  considered  it  led  to  an  even 
game,  but  no  great  attention  was  paid  to  it  by  analysts.  The  following 
variation  Avas  given  in  the  German  Handbook,  was  repeated  by  Stauntoa 
in  his  Handbook,  and  accepted  as  satisfactory : 

6.  B  to  Q  B's  4th  6.  Q  to  K's  2nd 

7.  P  to  Q's  4th  6.  P  to  Q's  Srd 

8.  Kt  takes  K  B  P  8.  Q  takes  K  P  (ch.) 

9.  Q  to  K's  2ud  9.  Q  takes  Q  (ch.) 
10.  K  takes  Q                                            10.  P  to  Q's  4th 

And  White  has  the  better  game. 
It  was  not  until  the  match  between  Lowenthal  and  Harrwitz  that  di 
notice  was  taken  of  the  move,  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd.    The  former  played  it  ve 


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snccessfully  asainst  !iis  opponent,  and  the  opinion  noTV  entertained  is  that 
it  furnishes  the  best  defence  against  the  attack.  Staunton  subiequently 
adopted  it  versus  Heydebrand,  and  with  success. 

(b)  Kt  takes  K  P  is  generally  preferred. 

{c)  We  have  elsewhere,  in  opposition  to  Mr.  Staunton,  wlio  in  the  "  Chess 
Player's  Clironicle,"  vol.  1S53,  f«l.  347,  declares  this  the  best  move,  given  it 
as  our  opinion  tliat  Q  to  E's  2nd  is  the  correct  defence  ;  the  Kt  afterwards 
can  be  played  to  the  K  E's  4th  with  much  greater  effect. 

{d)  A  novelty,  and  one  that  deserves  consideration. 

{e)  It  is  questionable  whether  Black  might  not  here  have  played  Kt  to 
Kt's  6th,  with  safety.    Suppose : 

9.  Kt  to  Kt's  6th 

10.  B  takes  P  (best)  10.  Kt  takes  R 

11.  Q  to  K's  2nd  11.  Q  takes  P  (ch.) 

12.  K  to  Q's  sq  12.  Q  to  K  B's  7th, 

With  safe  game. 
(/)  Ingenious,  and  productive  of  a  most  interesting  game. 
(g)  We  consider  that  Q  to  Kt's  2nd  would  have  been  better  play. 
(A)  All  this  is  finely  played  by  Morphy. 


GAME    XLI. 

Between  Morphy   and  Eiviere. 


RUY   LOPEZ   OPENING. 


WHITE.     Mr.  R. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

3.  K  B  to  Q  Kt's  5th 

4.  K  B  to  Q  K's  4th 

5.  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd  (a) 

6.  P  to  Q's  3rd 

7.  Q  B  to  K's  3rd 
S.  P  takes  B 

9.  Castles 

10.  B  takes  Kt 

11.  Q  to  K's  sq 

12.  Kt  to  K  K's  4th 

13.  Q  R  to  Q's  sq 

14.  P  to  Q's  4th 

15.  P  to  K  K's  3rd 

16.  K  to  K  B's  3rd 

17.  Q  K  takes  P  (&) 

18.  P  to  Q  K's  4th 

19.  R  to  Q's  2nd 

20.  Kt  to  Q's  5th 

21.  P  takes  B 

22.  R  to  Iv'a  2nd 

23.  P  to  Q  Bs  4th 

24.  R  to  K  B's  4th 

25.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 
2G.  Kt  to  Q's  2ud 

27.  Q  takes  Kt 

28.  Q  to  Q  R's  5th 

29.  Q  takes  RP 
80.  B  takes  B 


BLACK.     Mr.  M. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

3.  P  to  Q  Rs  3rd 

4.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

5.  KB  to  Q  B's  4th 

6.  P  to  K  R's  3rd 

7.  B  takes  B 

8.  P  to  Q's  3rd 

9.  Castles 

10.  P  takes  B 

11.  B  to  K's  3rd 

12.  P  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

13.  Q  to  K's  2nd 

14.  Q  R  to  K's  sq' 

15.  B  to  Q  B's  5th 

16.  P  takes  P 

17.  B  to  Q  Kt's  4th 
IS.  P  to  Q  Bs  4th 

19.  B  to  Q  B's  3rd 

20.  B  takes  Kt 

21.  Kt  to  K's  5th 

22.  Q  to  K's  4th 

23.  R  to  Q  Kt's  sq 

24.  K  R  to  K's  sq 

25.  Q  to  K  Kfs  2ad 

26.  Kt  takes  Kt 

27.  R  to  Q  Kt's  6th 

28.  P  to  K  B's  4th 

29.  R  takes  Q  Kt  P 
SO.  Q  takes  B 


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81.  Q  to  Q  B's  6th  81.  R  takes  K  P 

82.  Q  takes  Q  B  P  32.  R  to  K's  8th  (ch.) 

83.  K  to  It's  2nd  83.  Q  to  K's  4th 

84.  Q  to  Q's  Sth  (ch.)  84.  K  to  B's  2nd 
8.5.  Q  to  Q's  7th  (ch.)  85.  K  to  B's  3rd 
36.  Q  to  Q's  Sth  (ch.)(c) 

And  the  game  was  drawn. 

(a)  This  is  not  the  correct  move,  it  only  gives  Black  the  opportunity  of 
bringing  his  K  B  into  play.     P  to  Q  B's  3rd  is  the  proper  play. 

(6)  Taking  with  the  Pawn  would  have  lost  the  Pawn  at  K's  4th. 

(c)  This  being  the  first  game  contested  between  tliese  gentlemen,  great 
caution  was  observed  on  both  sides.  Considering  the  antagonist  to  whom 
he  was  opposed,  Mons.  de  Riviere  deserves  much  credit  for  the  able  man- 
ner in  which  he  gonducted  his  game. 


GAME    XLII. 

Between  Morpliy  and  De  Riviere. 


EVANS'    GAMBIT 

WHITE.     Mr,  M. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  K  Kt  to  K  B's  8rd 

3.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

4.  P  to  Q  Kt's  4th 

5.  P  to  Q  B's  3rd 

6.  Castles 

7.  P  to  Q's  4th 

8.  P  takes  P 

9.  Q  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

10.  P  to  K's  5th 

11.  P  takes  Kt 

12.  P  takes  K  Kt  P 

13.  K  R  to  K's  sq  (ch.) 

14.  P  to  Q's  5th 

15.  Q  B  to  K  Kt's  5th 

16.  P  takes  B 

17.  P  takes  P  (double  ch.)  ^ 

18.  R  to  K's  7th  (ch.)  / 

19.  Q  to  K's  sq  » 

20.  Q  R  to  Q's  sq 

21.  QR  takes  Kt 

22.  Q  to  Q  Kt'a  sq  (ch.) 

And  Black  surrendered. 


BLACK.    M.  de  R. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  Q  Kt  to  Q  B's  8rd 

3.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

4.  K  B  takes  Kt  P 

5.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

6.  P  to  Q's  3rd 

7.  P  takes  P 

8.  K  B  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

9.  K  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

10.  P  to  Q's  4th 

11.  P  takes  B 

12.  K  R  to  K  Kt's  sq 

13.  Q  B  to  K's  3rd 

14.  Q  to  K  B's  3rd 

15.  Q  takes  Q  Kt 

16.  Q  to  Q's  6th 

17.  K  takes  P 
IS.  K  to  Kt's  3rd 
19.  Q  to  Q's  4th 

Kt  to  Q's  5th 
B  takes  R 


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GAME    XLIII. 

Between  Morphy  and  De  Riviere. 

EYANS'   GAMBIT. 

•WHITE.    Mr.  M.  BLACK.    M.  de  R. 


1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  K  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 
S.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 


1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  Q  Kt  to  Q  B's  8rd 
S.  KBtoQB's4tli 


MORPHY  S  GAMES  OF  CHESS. 


61 


4.  P  to  Q  Kt's  4th 

4.  K  B  takes  Kt  P 

S.  P  to  Q  B's  3rd 

5.  K  B  to  Q  B'3  4th 

6.  Castles 

6.  P  to  Q's  3rd 

T.  P  to  Q's  4tli 

7.  P  takes  P 

8.  P  takes  P 

8.  K  B  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

9.  P  to  Q-s  5th 

9.  Q  Kt  to  K's  2nd 

10.  P  to  Ks  5th 

10.  Q  Kt  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

11.  P  to  K"s  6th 

11.  P  takes  P 

12.  P  takes  P 

12.  K  Kt  to  K's  2nd 

13.  K  Kt  to  Kt's  5th 

13.  Castles 

14  Q  to  K  ll's  5th  (a) 

14.  P  to  K  E's  3rd 

15.  K  Kt  to  K  B'3  7th 

15.  E  takes  Kt                , 

16.  P  takes  R  (ch.) 

16.  K  to  E's  2nd 

17.  K  B  to  Q's  3rd 

17.  Q  B  to  K's  3rd 

18.  Q  B  to  K  Kt's  5th 

13.  QB  takes  douhledKBP 

19.  K  E  to  K"s  sq 

19.  K  to  Kt's  sq 

20.  Q  B  takes  K  Kt 

20.  Kt  takes  B 

21.  Q  to  K  Kfs  4th 

21.  Q  to  K  B's  sq 

22.  Q  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd  (&) 

22.  B  takes  K  B  P  (ch.) 

23.  K  to  E"s  sq 

23.  B  takes  R 

24.  R  takes  B 

24.  P  to  Q's  4th 

25.  R  to  K  B's  sq 

25.  E  to  Q's  sq 

26.  Kt  to  Q  Kt's  5th 

26.  P  to  Q  B's  4th 

27.  Q  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

27.  P  to  Q  B's  5th 

28.  B  to  Q  Bs  2nd 

2S.  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

29.  B  to  K  Kt's  6th 

29.  E  to  Q's  2nd 

80.  B  to  K  B's  5th 

30.  E  to  K's  2nd 

81.  Kt  to  Q's  6th 

31.  Q  to  Q  Kt's  sq 

32.  B  to  Q  B's  Sth 

32.  Kt  to  Q's  sq 

33.  B  to  K  B's  5th 

33.  P  to  Q  Kt's  4th 

34.  B  to  K  Kt's  6th 

84  B  takes  B 

35.  Kt  to  K  B's  5th 

35.  Q  takes  Q 

86.  Kt  takes  E  (ch.) 

36.  K  to  E's  2nd 

37.  P  takes  Q 

37.  P  to  Q's  Sth 

38.  Kt  takes  B 

38.  K  takes  Kt 

39.  P  to  Q  E's  3rd 

39.  P  to  Q  E's  4th  (c) 

40.  Kt  to  Q  B's  8rd 

40.  K  to  Kt's  sq 

41.  R  toKB's  Sth 

41.  P  to  Q  B's  6th 

42.  E  to  Q  B's  Sth 

42.  Kt  to  K's  4th 

43.  K  to  B's  2nd 

43.  Kt  to  Q  B's  5th 

44.  K  to  K's  2nd 

.    44  P  to  Q  B's  7th 

And  White 

resigned. 

{a)  The  attack  now  seems  irresistible ;  but  M.  de  Eiviere  manages  to  re- 
pel it  very  cleverly. 

(&)  Overlooking,  apparently,  the  somewhat  obvious  purpose  of  Black's  last 
move. 

(c)  These  are  terrible  Pawns  now 


62 


morphy's  games  of  chess. 


GAME    XLIV. 

Between  Morpliy  and  Boden. 

feUT  LOFEZ  knight's  GAME. 


WHITE.     Mr.  M. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  Kt  to  K  B's  Srd 

3.  B  to  Q  Kt's  5th 

4.  P  to  Q  B's  3i-d 

5.  Castles 

G.  P  to  Q's  4th 

7.  Kt  to  Q  E's  3rd 

8.  Q  Kt  to  Q  B's  4th 

9.  Q  Kt  to  K's  Srd 

10.  Q  Kt  to  K  B's  5th 

11.  K  B  to  Q  R's  4th 

12.  Q  Kt  to  K's  Srd 

13.  P  to  Q's  5th 

14.  P  takes  P 

15.  Q  Kt  to  Q  B's  4th 

16.  P  to  Q  Kl's  ord 

17.  Q  to  Q's  Srd 
IS.  Q  B  to  R's  3rd 

19.  Q  takes  B 

20.  Q  R  to  Q's  sq 

21.  QR  to  Q's  3rd 

22.  K  to  R's  sq 

23.  Q  B  to  Q  B's  sq 

24.  P  to  K  Kt's  4th 

25.  P  to  K  R"s  3rd 

26.  K  R  to  K  Kl's  sq 

27.  K  Kt  to  R's  4th 

28.  Q  R  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

29.  Kt  to  B's  5th 

30.  P  takes  Kt 

31.  K  R  to  Kt's  2nd 

32.  Q  to  K  Kt's  4th 
S3.  Q  to  K  R's  .5th 

34.  K  R  to  K  B's  Srd 

35.  Q  to  R's  6tli 
86.  K  R  takes  P 
37.  Q  takes  B 
8S.  Q  takes  K  P 

39.  Q  to  K's  :^rd 

40.  P  takes  P 

41.  Q  to  K's  2nd 

42.  Q  B  takes  P 

43.  Q  to  Q's  2nd 

44.  P  to  il  Kt's  4th 
4\  Q  B  to  R's  6th 

46.  K  to  Kt's  sq 

47.  Q  B  to  Kt's  5th 

45.  Q  to  K  B's  4th 

49.  Q  to  Q  B's  sq 

50.  Q  B  to  E's  6th 
61.  E  takes  E  (ch.) 


BLACK.     Mr.  B. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  Kt  to  Q  B's  Srd 

3.  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

4.  Q  to  K's  2nd 

5.  P  to  K  B's  Srd 

6.  B  to  Kt's  Srd 

7.  Q  Kt  to  Q'.s  sq 

8.  Q  Kt  to  K  B's  2nd 

9.  P  to  Q  B's  Srd 

10.  Q  to  K  Bs sq 

11.  P  to  K  Kt's  Srd 

12.  P  to  Q's  Snl 

13.  Q  B  to  Q's  2nd 

14.  P  takes  P 

15.  Q  R  to  Q  B's  sq 

16.  Q  B  to  K's  Srd 

17.  Q  to  K's  2nd 

18.  B  takes  Kc 

19.  K  to  B's  sq 

20.  P  to  Q  B's  4th 

21.  K  Kt  to  R's  Srd 

22.  K  to  Kt's  'ind 

23.  K  R  to  K  B's  sq 

24.  K  Kt  takes  Kt  P 

25.  K  Kt  to  R's  Srd 

26.  K  to  R's  sq 

27.  K  R  to  K  Kfs  sq 

28.  P  to  K  Kt's  4th 

29.  Kt  takes  Kt 

30.  Q  to  Q  Kt's  2nd  (ch.) 

31.  P  to  K's  4th 

32.  Kt  to  R's  Srd 
83.  Kt  takes  B  P 

34,  Kt  to  Kt's  2nd 

35.  B  to  Q's  sq 
86.  B  takes  R 

37.  Q  R  to  K  B's  sq 
8S.  Q  R  to  B's  4th 
89.  P  to  Q's  5th 

40.  Q  R  to  B's  6th 

41.  P  takes  P 

42.  P  to  Q's  6th 

43.  Q  to  Q's  4th 

44.  K  E  to  K  B's  sq 

45.  Q  R  takes  R  P  (ch.) 

46.  K  R  to  K  Kt's  sq 

47.  Q  to  Q's  5th 

43.  Q  to  K  R's  8th  (ch.) 

49.  Q  to  K's  4th 

50.  Kt  to  K's  sq 

51.  K  takes  E 


morphy's  games   of  chess.                   63 

52.  K  B  to  Kt's  3rd  (ch.)  52,  K  to  R's  sq 

53.  Q  B  to  K  B"s  4th  53.  Q  to  K  Kt's  2nd  (ch.) 

54.  Q  B  ti)  KVs  3rd  54.  K  to  E's  4th  (ch.) 

55.  Q  to  Q"s  t-q  55.  K  to  K's  4th 

56.  Q  takes  P  56.  K  to  K's  8th  (ch.) 

57.  K  to  Kt's  2nd 

And  after  a  few  more  moves  the  game  was  abandoned  as  di'awn. 


GAME    XLV 

Between  Morplij  and  De  Eiviere  &;  Journoud,  consulting 
together. 

EVANS'    GAMBIT. 

WHITE.    The  Allies.  black.    Mr.  M. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  Q  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

3.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

4.  K  B  takes  Kt  P 

5.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

6.  P  to  Q's  3rd 

7.  P  t.^kos  P 

8.  K  B  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

9.  K  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

10.  Castles 

11.  P  takes  P 

12.  K  Kt  to  Q's  4th 

13.  Q  B  to  K's  3rd 

14.  P  to  K  Ks  3rd 

15.  P  takes  Kt 

16.  K  to  E's  .sq 

17.  K  E  to  K  B's  5th 
IS.  KE  takes  Kt 

19.  Ktto  Q's  5th 

20.  K  E  takes  E 

21.  B  takes  B 

22.  Q  to  K  Kt's  4th 

23.  E  to  K  B's  sq 

24.  P  to  Q  B's  4th 

25.  Q  to  K's  2nd 

26.  Q  to  K  E's  5lh 

27.  Q  to  K's  2nd 
2S.  E  to  K  B-s  3rd 
29.  E  to  K  B's  sq 
80.  P  to  Q  Kfs  4th 
31.  P  to  Q  Kfs  .5th 

82.  P  to  Q  E's  4th 

83.  P  to  Q  E's  5th 

84.  E  to  Q  E's  sq 

85.  E  to  Q  Kt's  sq 

86.  P  to  Q  Kt's  6th 

87.  P  takes  P 

88.  P  to  Q  Kt's  7th 

89.  E  to  Q's  sq 

40.  P  to  K  Kt's  4th 

41.  B  to  K  B's  3rd 


1. 

P  to  K's  4th 

2. 

K  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

3. 

K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

4. 

P  to  Q  Kt's  4th 

5. 

P  to  Q  B's  3rd 

6. 

Castles 

7. 

P  to  Q's  4th 

8. 

P  takes  P 

9. 

Q  B  to  Q  Kt's  2nd 

10. 

Q  Kt  to  Q's  2ud 

11. 

P  to  K's  5th 

12. 

P  takes  P 

13. 

Q  Kt  to  K's  4th 

14. 

K  Kt  to  Kt's  5th 

15. 

K  Kt  takes  B 

16. 

Q  to  K  Kt's  4th  (a) 

17. 

Q  E  to  Q"s  sq 

IS. 

Q  takes  K  P 

19. 

B  takes  Kt 

20. 

Q  E  takes  Kt 

21. 

Q  B  takes  E 

22. 

E  to  K's  sq 

23. 

B  to  K  B's  3rd 

24. 

Q  to  Q  B's  4th 

25. 

P  to  Ks  6th  (h) 

26. 

Q  to  Q  E's  4th 

27. 

Q  to  Q  B's  2nd 

2S. 

Q  to  K  Kt's  6th 

29. 

Q  to  K's  4th 

80. 

P  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

31. 

E  to  K's  ?nd 

82. 

B  to  K  E's  5th 

83. 

B  to  K  E-s  7th 

84. 

Q  to  Q  B"s  2nd 

35. 

Q  to  K's  4th 

86. 

Q  to  Q's  .^th 

37. 

P  takes  P 

38. 

B  to  K  Kt's  6th 

89. 

B  to  Q  Kt's  sq 

40. 

Q  to  K  B's  5th 

41. 

Q  to  K  Kt's  6th 

64 


MORPHT  S  GAMES  OF  CHESS. 


42.  Q  takes  E  E  P  (cli.)  42.  K  to  Kt's  sq 

48.  Q  to  K  Kt's  Cth  (ch.)  43.  B  to  K  Kt's  2nd 

44.  Q  to  K  E's  7th  (ch.)  44.  K  to  B's  sq 

45.  P  to  K  E's  4th  45.  Pv  to  Q's  Sth  (ch.) 

46.  K  to  Kt's  2nd  46.  B  to  K  B's  3rd 

47.  P  takes  P  47.  B  to  Q's  5th 

48.  Q  to  K  B's  5th  (ch.)  48.  K  to  Kfs  sq 

49.  Q  to  K  Kt's  6th  (ch.)  49.  K  to  E's  sq 

50.  E  to  K's  4tli  50.  Q  to  Q  Kt's  2nd 

51.  P  to  K's  7th 

And  Black  surrendered. 


(a)  Ycry  well  played. 
(&)  Cleverly  conceived. 
Inevitably  lose. 


If  Black  venture  to  take  the  Bishop,  he  must 


GAME     XLVI. 

Between  Morphy  and  Barnes. 
philidor's  defence. 


BLACK.     Mr.  B. 

P  to  K's  4th 

K  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

P  to  Q's  4th 

Q  takes  P 

Q  B  to  K's  8rd 

Q  to  Q's  2n(l 

K  B  to  Q's  3rd 

Q  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

Castles  (K  E) 

P  to  K  E's  3rd 

P  to  K  Kt's  4th 

K  Kt  to  K  E's  2nd 

P  takes  P 

P  to  K  B's  3rd 

K  to  Kfs  2nd 

K  E  to  K  E's  sq 

K  Kt  to  K  B's  sq 

K  Kt  to  Kt"s  3rd 

Q  Kt  to  Q's  5th 

K  Kt  to  K  E's  5th  (ch.) 

Q  E  to  Q's  sq 

K  B  to  K's  2ud 

K  to  B's  2nd 

Q  Kt  takes  K  B 

Q  takes  Q  P 

Q  takes  Q  (ch.)  (a) 

K  Kt  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

Q  E  to  Q's  6th 

Q  E  to  Q's  2nd 

P  to  K  B's  4th 

Q  B  takes  P 

Q  B  to  K  E's  6th 

K  to  K's  3rd 

Kt  to  K  B's  5th 


•SVHITE.      Mr.  M. 


1. 

P  to  K's  4th 

2. 

P  to  Q's  3rd 

3. 

P  takes  P 

4.  B  to  Q's  2nd 

5. 

Q  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

6. 

Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

7. 

K  B  to  K's  2nd 

8. 

Castles 

9. 

P  to  K  E's  8rd 

10. 

K  Kt  to  K  E's  2nd 

11. 

P  to  K  E's  4th 

12. 

P  takes  P 

13. 

Q  Kt  to  K's  4th 

14. 

P  to  K  Kt's  4th 

15. 

P  to  Q  B's  4th 

16. 

K  to  Kt's  2nd 

17. 

K  E  to  K  E's  sq 

IS. 

P  to  K  B's  3rd 

19. 

K  Kt  to  K  B's  sq 

20. 

K  to  B's  2nd 

21. 

K  Kt  to  K  Kt's  8rd 

22. 

K  Kt  to  K  E's  5th  (ch.) 

23. 

B  to  Q  B's  Srd 

24. 

Q  takes  Kt 

25. 

P  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

26. 

K  takes  Q 

27. 

K  to  B's  2nd 

28. 

K  to  K's  2nd 

29. 

K  to  B's  2nd 

30. 

P  takes  P 

81. 

K  Kt  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

82. 

K  E  to  K's  2nd 

33. 

Q  E  to  K  E's  sq 
K  Kt  to  K's  2nd 

84. 

morphy's  games  of  chess. 


65 


S5.  Kt  tabes  Kt 

86.  P  to  K  Kt's  5th 

87.  K  R  to  Q's  sq 

3S.  Q  U  to  Q's  6tli  (ch.) 

89.  K  B  to  Ks  5th  (ch.) 

40.  Q  B  takes  P  (ch.) 

41.  KEtoKB'ssq(ch.) 


85.  K  takes  Kt 

86.  K  to  K's  8rd 
3T.  P  takes  P 

88.  K  to  B"s  2nd 

89.  K  to  K's  2nd 
40,  K  to  B'3  sq 


And  wins. 


(a)  Better,  we  believe,  to  have  taken  the  K  Kt  with  K  E ;  the  attack 
then,  appaj-ently,  would  have  been  quite  ii-resistible. 


GAME     XLVII. 

Between  Morphy  and  De  Kiviere. 

EUY  LOPEZ    KXIGHt's   GAME. 


WHITE.     Mr.  de  R. 

BLACK.     Mr.  1 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

1. 

P  to  K's  4th 

2.  K  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

2. 

Q  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

3.  K  B  to  Q  Kt's  5th 

3. 

P  to  Q  R's  3rd 

4.  K  B  to  Q  R's  4th 

4. 

K  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

5.  Q  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

5. 

K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

6.  P  to  Q's  Bid 

6, 

P  to  K  R's  3rd 

7.  Q  B  to  K's  3rd 

7. 

B  takes  B 

8.  P  takes  B 

8. 

P  to  Qs  3rd 

9.  Castles 

9. 

Castles 

10.  B  takes  Kt 

10. 

P  takes  B 

11.  Q  to  K's  sq 

11. 

B  to  K's  3rd 

12.  KKttoKE's4th 

12. 

P  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

13.  Q  R  to  Q's  sq 

13. 

Q  to  K's  2nd 

14.  P  to  Q's  4th 

14. 

Q  R  to  K's  sq 
B  to  Q  B's  5th 

15.  P  to  K  R's  3rd 

15. 

16.  K  R  to  K  B's  3rd 

16. 

P  takes  Q  P 

17.  Q  R  takes  P 

17. 

B  to  Q  Kt's  4th 

IS.  P  to  Q  R-s  4th 

IS. 

P  to  Q  B's  4th 

19.  Q  R  to  Q-s  '-2nd 

19. 

B  to  Q  B's  3rd 

20.  Kt  to  Q's  5th 

20. 

B  takes  Kt 

21.  P  takes  B 

21, 

Kt  to  Ks  5th 

2-2.  Q  R  to  K's  2nd 

22. 

Q  to  K's  4th 

23,  P  to  Q  B's  4th 

23. 

Q  R  to  Q  Kt's  sq 

24.  K  R  to  K  B's  4th 

24. 

K  R  to  K's  sq 

25.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

25. 

Q  to  K  Kt's  2nd 

26.  Kt  to  Q's  2nd 

26. 

Kt  takes  Kt 

27.  Q  takes  Kt 

27. 

Q  R  to  Q  Kt's  6th 

23.  Q  to  Q  R's  5th 

28. 

P  to  K  B's  4th 

29.  Q  takes  Q  R  P 

29. 

Q  R  takes  Q  Kt's  P 

80.  R  takes  R 

30. 

Q  takes  Q 

81.  Q  to  Q  B's  6th 

81. 

R  takes  P 

82.  Q  takes  P  at  Q  B's  7th 

82. 

R  to  K's  Sth  (ch.) 

83.  K  to  R-s  2nd 

83. 

Q  to  K's  4th 

84.  Q  to  Q's  Stli  (ch.) 

85.  Q  to  Q's  7th  (ch.) 

84. 

K  to  B's  2nd 

35. 

K  to  B's  3rd 

86.  Q  to  Q's  8th  (ch.) 

86. 

Q  to  K's  2nd 

87.  Q  to  K  R's  Sth  (ch.) 

87. 

Q  to  K  Kt's  2nd 

38.  Q  to  Q's  Sth  (ch.) 

And  the  gai 

cao  was  drawn. 

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MORPHY  S    GAMES    OP    CHESS. 


GAME    XLVIII. 

Between  Morpliy  and  Paulsen. 

lEEEGULAR   OPENING. 


WHITE.    Mr.  p. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

8.  Kt  to  Q  B's  8rd  (a) 

4.  K  B  to  Q  Kt's  5th 

5.  Castles 

6.  K  Kt  takes  P 

T.  K  Kt  takes  Kt  (c) 

8.  K  B  to  Q  B^s  4th  (d) 

9.  K  B  to  K\s  2nd  (/) 

10.  Kt  takes  Kt  (g) 

11.  B  to  K  B's  3rd 

12.  P  to  Q  B's  3rd  (h) 
18.  P  to  Q  Kfs  4th 

14.  P  to  Q  R's  4th 

15.  Q  takes  R  P 

16.  RtoQR-s2nd(?) 

17.  Q  to  Q  R's  6th  (0 

18.  P  takes  Q 

19.  KtoR'ssq 

20.  R  to  Q's  sq  («) 

21.  K  to  Kt's  sq 

22.  K  to  K  B's  sq 

23.  K  to  Ki's  sq 

24.  K  to  R's  sq 

25.  Q  to  K  B's  sq  (o) 

26.  R  takes  B 

27.  R  to  Q  R's  sq 

28.  P  to  Q's  4th 


BLACK.      Mr.  M. 

1,  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 
8.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

4.  K  B  to  K  B's  4th 

5.  Castles 

6.  R  to  K's  sq  (5) 

7.  Q  P  takes  Kt 

8.  P  to  Q  Kt's  4th  (e) 

9.  Kt  takes  K  P 

10.  E  takes  Kt 

11.  R  to  K's  3rd 

12.  Q  to  Q"s  6th 

13.  B  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 
14  P  takes  R  P 

15.  B  to  Q's  '2nd  (i) 

16.  Q  R  to  K's  sq  {k) 

17.  Q  takes  B  (7?i) 

18.  R  to  K  Kt's  3rd  (ch.) 

19.  Q  B  to  K  R's  6th 

20.  B  to  K  Kt'.s  7th  (ch.) 

21.  Q  B  takes  P  (disc,  ch.) 

22.  B  to  Kt's  7th  (ch.) 

28.  B  to  R's  6th  (disc,  ch.) 

24.  K  B  takes  K  B  P 

25.  B  takes  Q 

26.  R  to  K's  7th 

27.  R  to  K  R's  3rd 

28.  B  to  K's  6th 
And  White  resigns. 


This  was  the  sixth  game  between  these  players  In  the  fourth  section  of  the 
Grand  Tournament  of  the  American  Chess  Congress. 

(a)  This  Fcems  to  be  a  favorite  opening  with  Mr.  Paulsen.  The  move, 
though  a  safe  one,  is  not  likely  to  lead  to  interesting  positions. 

(?;)"  Better  than  6.  Kt  takes  Kt,  in  which  case  White  would  advance  7.  P 
to  Q's  4th,  regaining  the  piece  with  tiir-  better  position. 

(c)  By  retreating"7.  Kt  to  Q's  Srd,  White  might  have  preserved  his  Pawn, 
but  tbe'cramped  situation  of  his  game  would  have  amply  compensated  Black 
for  his  loss. 

(d)  Indirectly  protecting  his  King's  Pawn,  for  suppose 

8.  Kt  takes  K  P 
9.  Kt  takes  Kt  9.  R  takes  Kt 

10    B  takes  K  B  P  (ch.) 
and  White  keer>s  his  Pawn,  since  if  10.  K  takes  B,  White  wins  the  Rook  by 
11.  Q  to  K  B's  3rd  (ch.) 

(e)  Black  might  also  have  plaved  S  Kt  to  K  Kt's  5lh. 
if)  If 

9.  B  to  O  Kt's  3rd  9.  B  to  K  Kt's  5th 

10.  Q  to  K's  sq  10,  P  to  Q  Kt's  5th 

with  a  decided  advantage. 


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<Cr)  If,  instead,  White  play  la  B  to  K  B's  3rd,  he  loses  directly. 

10.  Kt  takes  KBP 

11.  E  takes  Kt  11.  Q  to  Q's  5th 

12.  Q  to  K  B's  sq  (A)  12.  Q  takes  E  (ch.) 

13.  Q  takes  Q  13.  E  to  K's  Sth  (mate). 

(A) 

12.  Kt  to  K's  4th  12.  E  takes  Kt 

13.  B  takes  E  13.  Q  takes  E  (ch.) 

14.  K  to  E's  sq  14.  B  to  K  Kt's  5th 

15.  B  to  K  B's  3rd  15.  E  to  K's  sq 

And  wins. 

(A)  With  the  idea  of  playing  13.  P  to  Q's4th;  12.  P  to  Q's  3rd  would  have 
been  better,  since  Black  is  enabled  by  his  next  move  to  completely  shut  in 
White's  pieces  on  the  Queen's  side. 

(i)  15.  E  to  K  Kt's  3rd  promises  more  than  it  would  yield. 

Ij)  Intending  to  proffer  the  exchange  of  Queens  by  playing  17.  Q  to  Q 
B's  2nd ;  16.  Q  to  Q  E's  6th  would  have  been  much  better,  compelling  Black 
either  to  exchange  or  reti-eat  his  Queen. 

{fr,)  Threatening  mate  in  two  moves  by  17.  Q  takes  E  (ch.),  followed  by 
18.  E  to  K's  Sth.  "The  real  object  of  this  move,  however,  is  to  enable  Black, 
if  possible,  to  take  the  K  B  with  Q.       , 

(0  17.  Q  to  Q's  sq  was  the  proper  reply  to  Black's  last  move,  preventing 
botli  the  threatened  mate  and  capture  of  the  Bishop. 

(7?i)  The  winning  move,  for  play  as  White  may.  Black  must  now  score 
the  game. 

(71)  This,  or  20.  Q  to  Q's  Srd  (see  variation),  was  the  only  method  of  avoid- 
inc  Black's  threatened  mate  in  two  moves,  by  20.  B  to  K  Kt's  7th  (ch.), 
followed  by  21.  Q  B  takes  KBP  (dis.  mate).  If  20.  E  to  K  Kt's  sq.  Black 
plays 

20.  E  takes  E  (ch. 

21.  K  takes  E  21.  E  to  K's  Sth  (ch.) 

22.  Q  to  K  B's  sg  ,  22.  E  takes  Q  (mate) 

Variation. 

20.  Q  to  Q's  3rd  - . . .  :         20.  P  to  K  B's  4th 

Again  threatening  the  mate  in  two  moves. 

21.  Q  to  Q  B's  4th  (ch.)         21.  K  to  B's  sq  (best) 

If  Black  move  21.  K  to  E's  sq,  White  plays  22.  Q  to  K  B's  7th,  and 
must  win. 

22.  Q  to  K  B's  4th  (A)  22.  B  takes  KBP 

23.  Q  to  K  Kt's  3rd  23.  B  takes  Q 

And  wins. 

(A) 

22.  Q  to  K  E's  4th  22.  B  takes  E  (best) 

23.  P  to  K  E's  3rd  (best)  23.  B  to  K  Kt's  7th  (ch.) 

24.  K  to  E's  2nd  (best)  84.  Q  B  takes  KBP 

And  must  win. 
(o)  The  only  move. 


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morphy's  games  of  chess. 


WHITE. 


GAME    XLIX. 

Between  Morphy  and  Schulten. 

king's  gambit  eefiised. 
Mr.  S.  BLACK.    Mr.  M, 


1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  P  to  Q^s  4th 

3.  P  to  K's  5th 

4.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

5.  B  to  Q  Kt's  5th 

6.  P  to  K's  Gth  (a) 

7.  Castles 

8.  K  B  takes  Kt 

9.  E  to  K's  sq  (cli.) 

10.  B  to  K  Kt's  5th 

11.  PtoQB'sSrd 

12.  Q  Kt  takes  P 

13.  R  takes  B 

14.  Kt  to  Q's  5th 

15.  B  takes  Kt  (cIi.) 

16.  Kt  to  Kfs  5ch  (ch.) 

17.  Kt  to  K  B"s  Ctii  (uh.) 
IS.  QtoQ's5th  (ch.) 

19.  Q  to  K  B's  7ih  (ch.) 

20.  Q  takes  K  B  P  ^ch.) 


1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  P  to  K  B's  4th 

3.  K  P  takes  Q  P 

4.  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

5.  P  to  Q"s  3rd 

6.  B  to  Q's  2nd 

7.  Q  B  takes  P  (5) 

8.  Q  B  to  Q's  2nd 

9.  Kt  P  takes  B 

10.  K  B  to  K's  2nd 

11.  P  to  Q  B's  4th  (c> 

12.  P  takes  P 

13.  K  to  B's  sq  (<Z) 

14.  Kt  takes  R 

15.  Q  to  Q  Kt's  sq 

16.  K  to  B's  2nd 

17.  Kto  Kt'ssq(e) 

18.  P  takes  Kt 

19.  K  to  Kt's  2nd 

20.  K  to  R's  3rd 

21.  K  to  R's  4th 

And  Black  mates  in  three  moves, 
(a)  A  sacrifice  that  may  be  fairly  ventured  in  an  oflf-hand  game  like  the 
present 
(ft)  If  7,  Q  to  K's  2nd  7.  Castles 

8.  Q  B  takes  P  (A)  S.  R  to  K's  sq 
And  play  as  White  may,  Black  must  win  a  piece. 

(A) 

a  Q  takes  P  S.  B  takes  Kt 

9.  Q  B  takes  B  9.  R  to  K's  sq 

10.  Q  B  to  K's  5th  10.  KKt  takes  QP, followed  by  11. 

P  to  K  B's  3rd,  winning  the  Queen's  Bishop. 

(c)  If  11.  P  to  K  R's"3rd,  the  following  is  a  probable  continuation  : 

11.  Q  takes  Q  P. 
If  White  take  the  Bishop,  Queen  takes  King's  Knight's  Pawn,  winning  easily. 

12.  K  to  B's  sq  (A)  12.  B  takes  B  (ch.) 

13.  Kt  takes  B  13.  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 
And  although  minus  a  Pawn,  Black's  game  is  preferable. 

(A) 

12.  K  to  B's  2nd 

13.  P  to  Q's  4th 

14.  K  to  K's  sq  (best) 

15.  Kt  takes  B  (best) 
And  Black  must  win.    White's  proper  play  was  11.  K  to  K  B's  2nd. 

id)  Too  late. 

(e)  If  17.  K  to  Kt's  3rd  17.  Kt  to  K  B's  4  th  (cb.) 

18.  K  to  R's  3rd  IS.  Q  or  Kt  mates. 

And   if  17.  K  to  K's  sq  17,  Q  to  K  R's  5th  (ch.) 

18.  P  to  K  Kt's  3rd  18.  R  to  K's  sq 

And  White  cannot  possibly  save  the  game. 


12.  Q  to  Q  B's  4th  (ch.) 

13.  Kt  to  K's  5lh  (ch.) 

14.  B  takes  B 

15.  Q  to  K  R's  4th 


morpht's  games  of  chess.  69 

GAME    L. 

Between  Morphy  and  Schnlten. 

bishop's  gambit. 

WHITE.    Mr.  S.  black:.    Mr.  M. 


1,  P  to  K's  4th 

1. 

P  to  K's  4th 

2.  P  to  K  B-s  4th 

2. 

P  takes  P 

a.  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

3. 

P  to  Q's  4th  (a) 

4.  P  takes  P  (&) 

4. 

K  Kt  to  B's  3rd 

5.  Q  Kt  to  B's  3rd 

5. 

B  to  Q's  3rd 

6.  P  to  Q's  4th  (c) 

6. 

Castles 

7.  K  Kt  to  K's  2n(l 

7. 

P  to  K  B's  6th  (d) 

8.  P  takes  P 

8. 

KKttoKR's4th 

9.  P  to  K  R's  4th 

9. 

R  to  K's  sq 

10.  Q  Kt  to  K's  4th 

10. 

B  to  K  Kt's  6th  (ch.) 

11.  K  to  Q's  2nd  (e) 

11. 

B  to  Q's  3rd 

12.  K  to  B's  3rd  (/) 

12. 

P  to  Q  Kt's  4th 

13.  B  takes  P 

13. 

P  to  Q  B's  3rd 

14  Kt  takes  B 

14. 

Q  takes  Kt 

15.  B  to  Q  Pw's  4th 

15. 

B  to  Q  R's  3rd 

16.  R  to  K's  sq 

16. 

Kt  to  Q's  2nd 

IT.  P  to  Q  Kfs  3rd 

17. 

Kt  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

18.  B  takes  Q  B  P 

18. 

Q  R  to  Q  B's  sq 

19.  K  to  Q's  2nd  (g) 

19. 

R  takes  B 

20.  P  takes  R 

20. 

B  takes  Kt 

21.  R  takes  B 

21. 

Q  take5  Q  P  (ch.) 

22.  K  to  K's  sq 

22. 

Q  to  Kt's  Sth  (ch.) 

23.  K  to  Q's  2nd 

23. 

R  to  Q's  sq  (ch.) 

24.  K  to  B's  3rd 

24. 

Q  to  Q  B's  4th  (ch.) 

25.  K  to  Kt's  2nd 

25. 

Kt  to  Q  R'a  5th  (ch.) 

And  White  resigns. 

(a)  We  resrard  this  as  a  good  defence  to  the  Bishop's  Gambit. 

(b)  4.  B  takes  P  may  also  he  played. 

(c)  6.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd,  as  played  by  Mr.  Schulten,  in  subsequent 
with  the  same  opponent,  is  better  at  this  point 

(d)  A  sound  sacrifice. 

(e)  If  11.  K  to  B's  sq,  then 

11.  R  takes  Kt 

12.  Kt  takes  B  (best)  12.  Kt  takes  Kt  (ch.) 

13.  K  to  Kt's  2ud  13.  Kt  takes  R 

14.  P  takes  R  14.  Q  takes  K  R  P 

And  wins. 
(/)  12.  P  to  Q  B's  3rd  and  afterwards  K  to  Q  B's  2nd  would  have  been 
safer.  f , 

(g)  If  19.  K  to  Kt's  2nd  19.  R  takes  B 

20.  P  takes  R  20.  B  takes  Kt 

21.  R  takes  B  (A)  21.  Kt  to  R's  5th  (ch.) 

22.  K  to  Q  Kt's  sq  22.  Kt  to  Q  B's  6th  (ch.) 
Winning  both  Queen  and  Rook.    If  at  move  22.  P  takes  Kt,  Black  mates 

with  Queen  at  Queen's  Knight's  5th. 

(A) 

21.  Q  to  Q's  2nd  21.  Kt  to  Q  B's  5th  <ch.) 
Winning  the  Queen,  for  suppose 

22.  P  takes  Kt  22.  R  to  Q  Kt's  sq  (ch.) 
2a,  K  to  Q  B's  Srd  2a  Q  to  Q  Kt's  5th  (mate) 


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MORPHY  S    GAMES    OF    CHESS. 


GAME    LI. 

Between  Morphy  and  Thompson. 

ETANS'    GAMBIT. 


WHITE.    Mr.  T. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  Kt  to  K  B'8  3rd 

3.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

4.  P  to  Q  Kt's  4th 

5.  P  to  Q  B's  3id 

6.  P  to  Q^s  4th 

7.  Q  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

8.  Castles. 

9.  P  takes  P 

10.  P  to  K's  5tb 

11.  P  takes  P 

12.  B  to  Q  K's  3rd 

13.  Q  Kt  to  Q's  2nd 

14.  B  takes  B 

15.  Q  li  to  K's  sq 

16.  Q  Kt  to- Ks  4th 

17.  Q  Kt  to  K  Kt's  5th 

18.  Kt  takes  R 

19.  Q  to  Q  Kt's  2nd  (c> 

20.  K  to  R's  sq 

21.  Q  to  Q  B's  sq 

22.  Q  to  Q  Kt's  2nd 

23.  Q  to  Q  B's  sq 

24.  Q  to  K  B's  4th 
2;-,.  Q  to  K  B"s  3rd 

26.  K  takes  R 

27.  R  takes  B  (e) 

28.  Q  to  K  R"s  3rd 

29.  P  to  K  B's  3rd 

30.  K  to  K  R's  sq 
SI.  B  to  Q  B's  sq 
32.  B  to  K  B's  4th 
S3.  B  takes  Q  B  F 
84.  K  to  K  Kt's  sq  (g) 

35.  Q  to  K  R's  2ud  (/»> 

36.  B  to  Q  Kfs  Sth  (i) 
S7.  K  to  K  B's  2nd 

38.  K  t9  K's  sq 

39.  Q  to  K  R's  3rd  (j) 

40.  K  to  K  B's  2nd 

41.  P  takes  Kt  (k) 

42.  K  takes  Kt 


BLACK.     Mr.  M, 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  Kt  to  Q  B's  ord 

3.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

4.  B  takes  Kt  P 
6.  B  to  Q  R's  4th 

6.  P  takes  P 

7.  Q  to  K  B's  3rd  («) 

8.  P  to  Q's  3rd 

9.  B  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 
10.  P  takes  P 
n.  Q  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

12.  Q  B  to  K's  3rd 

13.  K  Kt  to  K's  2nd 

14.  B  P  takes  B 

15.  Castles  (with  K  P.) 

16.  Q  R  to  Q's  sq 

17.  K  R  takes  K  Kt  (&) 
IS.  Q  R  to  Q's  6th 

19.  R  takes  Kt 

20.  B  to  Qs  5tli 

21.  R  to  Q  B's  6th 

22.  R  to  K  Kt's  6th 

23.  R  takes  K  Kt  P 

24.  Kt  to  K  Bs  4th 

25.  R  takes  K  R  P  (cb.)  (d> 

26.  B  takes  P  (cli.) 

27.  Kt  takes  R 

28.  Kt  to  K  R's  5th 

29.  Q  to  Q  B's  7th  (ch.) 
SO.  Kt  to  K  B's  4th 
31.  Q  to  K's  7th 

82.  Kt  to  Q's  6th 

83.  P  to  K's  4th  (/) 

84.  Kt  to  K  B's  5th 

85.  Q  to  Q  B's  5th 
'      Kt  to  K's  7th  (ch.) 

Q  to  Q's  5ili  (ch.) 
3S.  Kt  (from  KB's4th)toKt'a  6th 
89.  Q  to  Q  B's  eth  (ch.) 

40.  Kt  to  K's  5th  (ch.) 

41.  Q  takes  Q 

42.  Q  to  K  Kt's  7lh  (cb.) 
And  Black  wins. 

(a)  Decidedly  better  than  7.  Q  to  K's  2nd. 

(6)  Unexpected  but  quite  sound ;  Black  must  win  two  pieces  for  the  Kook. 
(c)  If  19-  Q  to  Q  B's  2nd  19.  R  takes  B 

If  19,  Kt  to  K  R's  4th  19.  R  takes  Q 

20.  Kt  takes  Q  20.  E  takes  B 

Winning  easily. 
{d)  The  game  is  rendered  still  more  lively  by  thia  sacrifice ;  we  think,  too^ 


87. 


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11 


that  Black's  superiority  in  force  and  position  enabled  him  to  make  it  with 
safety. 

(e)  Compulsory;  othermse  mate  ensues  in  a  few  moves. 

(/)  Black  might  have  won  the  exchange  by  33.  Kt  to  K  B'sTth  (ch.)  The 
move  in  the  te.vt,  liowever,  is  decidedly  preferable. 

{g)  If  84.  Q  takes  Kt  U.  Q  takes  R  (ch.) 

85.  K  to  K  s  2ud  35.  Q  to  K  B's  7th  (ch.) 

86.  K  to  It's  sq  (A)  36.  Q  to  K  K's  5th  (ch.) 
37,  K  to  Kt"s  2nd 

If  37.  K  to  Kt's  sq,  Black  mates  in  two  moves. 

37.  Kt  to  K  B's  5th  (ch.) 
And  "White  must  now  capture  the  Knight  with  Queen  or  be  mated  in 
three  moves. 

(A) 
36.  K  to  R's  8rd  86.  Kt  to  K  B's  5th  (ch) 

Here  again  White  must  take  the  Knight  or  mate  follows  in  four  moves. 

(A)  If  85.  Queen  to  Knight's  4th,  Black  wins  the  Queen  by  35.  Pawn  to 
King's  Book's  4th. 

(i)  Evidently  the  only  sqitare  for  the  Bishop, 
(j)  His  best  move  under  the  circumstances. 

(k)  If  41.  King  takes  Knight,  Queen  mates  at  Queen's  7th,  and  if  41. 
King  to  Knigiit's'''2nd,  Black  checks  with  Knight  at  King's  Bishop's  5th, 
winning  with  ease. 


GAME     LII. 

Between  Morphy  and  Liclitenhem. 
peteoff's  defence. 


WHITE.     Mr.  M. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  K  Kt  to  B's  3rd 
8.  K  B  to  Q  ii's  4th 

4.  Q  Kt  to  B's  3rd 

5.  B  takes  P 

6.  B  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

7.  P  to  Q's  8rd 

8.  P  to  K  R's  8rd 

9.  Q  B  to  K's  3rd 

10.  Q  to  Q's  -Ind 

11.  P  to  K  Kt's  4th 

12.  Q  R  P  takes  Kt 

13.  K  R  to  Kt's  sq 

14.  Q  Kt  to  K's  4th 

15.  P  to  K  Kt's  5th 

16.  Kt  to  K  R's  4lh 

17.  Q  to  K's  2nd 

IS.  P  to  K  B's  4th  (d) 

19.  B  to  Q's  4tli  (ch.) 

20.  Kt  to  K  B's  5th  (e) 

21.  Kt  to  K  R's  6lh  (ch.) 

22.  Castles 

23.  P  takes  B 

24.  P  to  K's  5th 
g5.  B  takes  B 


BLACK.     Mr.  L. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  K  Kt  to  B's  3rd 

3.  Kt  takes  P 

4.  P  to  Q's  4th  (a) 

5.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

6.  K  B  to  Q's  3rd 

7.  Castles 

8.  P  to  K  R's  3rd 

9.  Q  Kt  to  B's  3rd 

10.  Q  Kt  to  R's  4th  (6) 

11.  Kt  takes  B 

12.  Q  B  to  Q's  2nd 

13.  Kt  to  K  R's  2nd 
14  K  to  K  R's  sq 

15.  P  to  K  R's  4th 

16.  P  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

17.  Q  B  to  Q  B's  3rd  (c) 

18.  P  takes  P 

19.  K  to  Kt's  sq 

20.  R  to  K's  sq 

21.  K  to  B's  sq 

22.  B  takes  Kt 

23.  Q  to  K's  2nd 

24.  B  takes  P 

25.  QtakesB 


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MORPHY  S    GAMES    OF    CHESS, 


26.  R  to  Q'8  7th  (/)  26.  Q  to  K  Kt's  2nd  Ig) 

27.  Q  to  Q  B's  4th  27.  R  to  K's  2nd 

28.  R  takes  R  28.  K  takes  R 

29.  R  to  K's  sq  (ch.') 

And  Black  resigns. 

This  Game  was  the  second  in  the  Third  Section  of  the  Grand  Tourna- 
ment of  the  American  Chess  Congress. 

(a)  Unusual,  but  appears  to  be  good. 

(&)  Well  played. 

(c)  He  should  not  have  abandoned  the  command  of  his  Queen's  Bishop's 
diagonal 

(S)  At  once  taking  advantage  of  Black's  erroneous  move. 

(e)  The  only  move ;  if  20.  P  takes  Kt,  White  wins  immediately  by  21,  Kt 
to  K  B's  6th  (eh.),  followed  by  Q  takes  K  R  P. 

(/)  The  winning  move. 

(fir)  We  see  no  better  move.  If  , 

26.  K  to  Kt's  2nd 

27.  R  takes  K  B  P  (ch.)  27.  K  to  R's  sq 

28.  R  to  K  B's  8th  (ch.) 

If  Black  play  28.  R  takes  R,  then  White  29.  Q  takes  Q  (ch.),  and  wins. 
If  28.  Kt  takes  R,  then  29.  Kt  checks  at  B's  7th  winning  the  Queen,  there- 
fore 

28.  K  to  Kt's  2nd 

29.  R  to  Kt's  8th  (ch.)  29.  R  takes  R 

30.  Q  takes  Q,  and  wins 

If  Black  26.  Kt  takes  Kt  P.  then  White  27.  R  takes  Kt.  If  Black  16.  Q 
to  K  B's  4th,  then  White  27.  Q  to  Q's  3rd. 


GAME     LIII. 

Between  Morphy  and  Lichtenhein. 


WHITE.    Mr.  M.  BLACK.  Mr.  L. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th  1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd  2.  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 
8.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th                                     3.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

4.  P  to  Q  Kt's  4th  4  B  takes  Kt  P 

5.  P  to  Q  B's  3rd  5.  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

6.  Castles  6.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd  (a) 

7.  P  to  Q's  4th  7.  P  takes  P 

8.  P  takes  P  8.  B  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

9.  P  to  K's  5th  (fi)  9.  P  to  Q's  4th 

10.  P  takes  Kt  10.  P  takes  B 

11.  P  takes  Kt  P  11.  R  to  K  Kt's  sq 

12.  R  to  K's  sq  (ch.)  12.  Q  Kt  to  K's  2nd 

13.  Q  B  to  K  Kt's  5th  13.  Q  B  to  K's  3rd 
14  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd  (c)  14  B  to  Q  R's  4th 

15.  Q  Kt  to  K's  4th  15.  R  takes  Kt  P 

16.  Kt  to  B's  6th  (ch.)  16.  K  to  B's  sq 

17.  R  to  K's  5th  17.  P  to  Q  B's  3rd 

18.  B  to  K  R's  6tl)  18.  Kt  to  K  B's  4th 


MORPHy's   (JAMES   OF    CHESS. 


Id 


19.  R  takes  Q  B  {d) 

20.  Kt  to  K  Kt's  5th 

21.  B  takes  R 

22.  Q  to  K  B's  Srd 

23.  R  to  Q's  sq 

24.  Kt  to  Kt's  8th  (ch.) 

25.  Q  to  B's  Tth  (ch.) 

26.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 


19.  P  takes  R 

20.  K  to  K's  2nd  («) 

21.  Kt  takes  B 

22.  Q  takes  Q  P  (/) 

23.  B  to  Q's  Tth  {g) 

24.  R  takes  Kt 

25.  K  to  Q's  sq 


And  wins. 


(a)  Bad ;  the  correct  move  is  6.  P  to  Q's  3rd, 

(6)  9.  Q  B  to  Q  R's  3rd,  although  not  usual,  is  equally  good. 

(<j)  If  14.  B  takes  Kt  14.  Q  takes  B 

15.  P  to  Q's  5th  15.  Castles 

with  a  good  game. 

{d)  The  more  obvious  move  of  19.  B  takes  R  (check)  would,  perhaps,  have 
been  sounder;  but  the  line  of  play  adopted  leads  to  very  pretty  positions. 
"We  apprehend  that  White's  proper  course  would  have  been  to  capture  the 
Knight  with  his  Rook  and  then  move  20.  Kt  to  K  R's  5th,  afterwards  re- 
maining with  a  clear  piece. 

(e)  Black's  position  is  critical  in  the  extreme;  we  believe  this  to  be  the 
best  move  at  his  command ;  if 

20.  Q  to  K's  2nd 

21.  Q  to  K  R's  5th  21.  Kt  takes  B 

22.  Q  takes  Kt 
and  "White  must  win. 

(/)  He  should  have  played  22.  Kt  to  K  B's  4th. 
(g)  Obviously  the  only  move  to  prolong  the  game. 


GAME    LIV. 

Between  Morphy  and  Marache. 

EVANS'    (JAMBIT. 


WHITE.    Mr.  Marache. 

BLACK.     Mr.  Morphy. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  K  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

2.  Q  Kt  to  Q  B's  Srd 

8.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

8.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

4.  P  to  Q  Kt's  4th 

4KB  takes  Kt  P 

5.  P  to  Q  B's  3rd 

5.  K  B  to  Q  R's  4th 

6.  P  to  Q's  4th 

6.  P  takes  P 

7.  P  to  K's  5th 

7.  P  to  Q's  4th 

8.  P  takes  P  (en  Passant) 

8.  Q  takes  P 

9.  Castles 

9.  K  Kt  to  K's  2nd 

10.  Kt  to  K  Kt's  5th  (a) 

10.  Castles 

11.  K  B  to  Q's  3rd 

11.  Q  B  to  K  B's  4th  (J) 

V2.  B  takes  B 

12.  Kt  takes  B 

13.  B  to  Q  R's  3rd 

13.  Q  to  K  Kt's  Srd 

14  B  takes  K  R 

14.  Q  takes  Kt 

15.  B  to  Q  R's  3rd 

15.  P  takes  P 

16.  Q  B  to  B's  sq 

16.  Q  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

IT.  B  to  K  B's  4th 

17.  Q  R  to  Q's  sq 

18.  Q  to  Q  B's  2nd 

18.  Q  Kt  to  Q's  5th 

19.  Q  to  K's  4th  (c) 

19.  K  Kt  to  K  Kt's  6th 

And  White  resigns. 


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MORPHY  S    GAMES    OF    CHESS. 


(«)  Weak ;  10.  B  to  Q  E's  3rd,  followed  by  11.  R  to  K's  square,  was  thd 
proper  line  of  play. 

(5)  Decidedly  the  best  move ;  Black  purposely  gives  up  the  exchange, 
foreseeing  that  he  must  remain  with  more  than  an  equivalent  in  Pawns  and 
position. 

(c)  If  19.  Q  to  Q's  3rd,  Black,  by  the  same  move  19.  K  Kt  to  KV&  6tb,  will 
win  the  Queen  for  the  two  Knights. 

If  19.  R  to  Q's  sq  19.  K  Kt  to  K's  6th 

20.  Q  takes  Q  20.  Q  Kt  to  K's  7th  (ch.) 

21.  K  to  E's  sq  21.  R  takes  R  (mate) 


If  19.  Q  to  Q  R's  4th 

20.  Q  takes  B 

21.  K  to  E's  sq 

22.  R  to  K  Kt's  sq  (A) 

23.  P  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

24.  PtoKB'sSrd 

19.  P  to  Q  Kt's  4th 

20.  Kt  to  K's  7th  fch.) 

21.  Kt  takes  B 

22.  E  to  Q's  8th 

23.  Q  to  Q  B's  3rd  (ch.) 

24.  Q  takes  P  (mate) 

22.  P  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

23.  P  to  K  B's  3rd 
24  R  takes  Q 

25.  E  to  K  B's  sq 

(A) 

22.  Q  to  Q  B's  3rd  (ch.) 

23.  Q  takes  P  (ch.) 

24.  R  to  Q's  8th  (ch.) 

25.  R  takes  R  (mate) 

GAME    LV. 

Between  Morphy  and  Schulten. 


EVANS'   GAMBIT. 


WHITE.    Mr.  M. 


1. 

P  to  K's  4th 

2. 

K  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

8. 

K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

4  P  to  Q  Kt's  4th 

5. 

P  to  Q  B's  3rd 

6. 

Castles 

7. 

P  to  Q's  4th 

8. 

P  takes  P 

9. 

Q  Kt  to  B's  3rd  (a) 
K  B  to  Q  Kt's  5th 

10. 

11. 

P  takes  Q  B 

12. 

Q  B  to  K's  3rd 

13. 

K  to  R's  sq 

14. 

B  to  Q  R's  4th 

15. 

Q  R  to  Q  Kt's  sq 

16. 

Q  to  Q's  3rd 

17. 

K  R  to  K  Kt's  sq 

18. 

P  to  K's  5th 

19. 

Q  B  to  K  Kt's  5th 

20. 

Kt  to  K's  2ud 

21. 

Kt  to  K  B's  4th 

22,  Q  B  takes  Kt 

23. 

QtoQR's3rd{ch.)('n 

24  Q  R  takes  Q  Kt  P  '  "  ' 

25. 

K  B  takes  Q  B  P  (ch) 

26. 

K  B  takes  Q  P  (ch.) 

27. 

QtoKB'sStb 

BLACK.      Mr.  S. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  Q  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

3.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 
4KB  takes  Kt  P 

5.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

6.  P  to  Q's  3rd 

7.  P  takes  P 

8.  B  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

9.  Q  B  to  K  Kt's  5th  (&) 

10.  Q  B  takes  Kt  (c) 

11.  K  to  B's  sq  (d) 

12.  Q  Kt  to  K's  2nd 

13.  P  to  Q  B's  3rd 
14  P  to  Q's  4th 

15.  Q  R  to  Q  Kt's  sq 

16.  B  to  Q  B's  2nd 

17.  Q  Kt  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

18.  Q  to  K  R's  5th 

19.  Q  to  K  R's  6th  {e) 

20.  P  to  K  B's  3rd 

21.  Kt  takes  Kt 

22.  P  to  K  Kt's  4th 

23.  KtoK'ssq 

24.  R  takes  R 

25.  K  to  B's  2nd 

26.  K  to  Kt's  3rd 

27.  Q  to  Q's  2nd  {g) 


MORPHY  S  GAMES  OF  CHESS. 


75 


28.  K  B  takes  R 

29.  P  takes  P 

30.  K  B  to  K's  4tb  (ch.) 

81.  Q  B  to  K's  3rd 

82.  R  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

83.  Q  to  E  B's  7th  (ch) 


28.  B  to  Q's  sq 

29.  B  takes  P 
80.  K  to  R"s  4th 
31.  P  to  K  E's  3rd 
82.  B  to  K  Kf  s  2nd 


And  White  wins. 


(a)  This,  or  9.  P  to  Q's  5th,  is,  in  our  judgment,  better  than  the  more 
usual  move  of  9.  B  to  Q  Kt'a  2nd. 

(b)  Undoubtedly  the  best  reply  to  "White's  last  move. 

(c)  He  should  have  retreated  the  Bishop  to  Queen's  2nd. 

If  10.  P  to  Q  E's  3rd 

11.  B  to  Q  E's  4th  11.  B  to  Q  E's  4th 

12.  K  B  takes  Kt  (ch.)  12.  P  takes  B 

13.  Q  to  Q  E's  4th  13.  K  B  takes  Q  Kt 

14.  Q  takes  P  (ch)  14.  B  to  Q's  2nd 

15.  Q  takes  K  B,  with  the  better  game. 

(d)  Indispensable  to  avoid  loss  of  some  kind. 

(e)  He  evidently  cannot  capture  the  profifered  King's  Bishop's  Pawn. 
(/)  The  winning  move. 


Cfl') 


28.  Q  takes  K  B  P  (ch.) 

29.  R  takes  K  Kt  P  (ch.) 

80.  R  to  Kt's  4th  (dis  ch.) 

81.  K  B  to  B's  7th  (mate) 


If  27.  R  to  Q  Kt's  sq 

28.  Kt  takes  Q 

29.  K  to  R's  3rd 

30.  K  to  R's  4th 


GAME     LVI. 

Mr.  Paul  Morphy  gives  the  Queen's  Kniglit  to  Mr. 
Denis  Julien,  of  New  York. 


king's  knight's  gambit. 


WHITE. 

P  to  K's  4th 

P  to  K  B's  4th 

K  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

Castles 

P  to  Q  B's  3rd 

Q  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

P  to  Q's  4th 

Q  B  to  Q's  2nd 

Q  R  to  K's  sq 

K  B  to  Q's  3rd 

P  to  Q  R's  4th 

R  takes  B 

Q  takes  Q  Kt  P 

Q  takes  Q  B  P 

P  to  K's  5th 

Q  to  Q  B's  Sth  (ch.) 

P  takes  P  (dis.  ch.) 

R  takes  B  (ch.) 

B  to  Q  Kt's  Sth  (ch.) 


{Remove  White'a 
Mr.  M. 


'a  Knight.) 
BLACK. 


Mr.  J. 


1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  P  takes  P 

3.  P  to  K  Kt's  4th 

4.  K  B  to  K  Kt's  2nd 

5.  P  to  K  R's  3rd 

6.  P  to  Q's  3rd 

7.  Q  to  K's  2nd 

8.  P  to  Q  B's  3rd 

9.  Q  Kt  to  Q's  2nd 

10.  Q  Kt  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

11.  Q  B  to  K  Kt's  5th 

12.  Q  B  takes  Kt 

13.  Q  Kt  to  Q's  2nd 

14.  R  to  Q  Kt's  sq 

15.  R  takes  Q  Kt  P 

16.  R  takes  B 

17.  QtoQ'ssq 

18.  B  to  Q's  4th 

19.  Kt  takes  K 


And  Black  resigns. 


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MORPHY  S  GAMES  OF  CHESS. 


GAME     LVII. 

Between  Paul  Morphy  and  Mr.  F.  Perrin,  President  of 
the  Brooklyn  Chess  Club. 


SICILIAN   OPEIHNG. 


BLACK.    Mr.  p. 

P  to  Q  B's  4th 

P  to  K's  3rd 

P  takes  P 

Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

Kt  to  K  R's  3rd 

B  to  Q  Kt's  5th  (ch.)  (a) 

B  to  Q  R's  4th 

B  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

Q  Kt  to  K's  4th  {&) 

P  to  Q's  4th 

Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

B  takes  Kt 

K  Kt  to  Q's  2nd 

P  to  K  B's  4th 

P  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

K  P  takes  P 

Kt  to  K  B's  sq 

Kt  to  K's  3rd 

K  Kt  takes  Q  P  («> 

R  takes  B 

K  Kt  takes  B  P  {g) 

P  takes  R 

K  to  Q's  2nd 

Q  to  K's  2nd  {h} 

K  to  Q's  sq 


And  Black  resigns. 

(a)  Losing  time  and  therefore  bad.    B  to  K's  2nd  was  the  coup  Juste. 

(b)  Faulty,  like  the  check  of  Bishop  at  move  sixth.  He  should  have 
castled  instead. 

(c)  Not  only  a  perfectly  safe  move,  but  one  which  gives  White  an  im- 
mediate advantage. 

{d)  A  very  feasible  sacrifice,  as  an  examination  of  the  position  will  satisfy 
the  reader. 

(e)  Had  Black  captured  the  Bishop,  White  would  have  cheeked  with 
Queen  at  K  R's  5th.  gaining  a  second  Pawn  in  return  for  the  sacrificed  piece 
and  speedily  winning  through  the  cramped  situation  of  the  Black  forces, 
and  the  irresistible  strength  of  his  ovni  passed  centre  Pawns. 

(/)  After  this  move  we  think  White's  game  won,  from  its  nature. 

(g)  By  castling  at  this  late  stage  of  the  game  (an  odd  looking,  but  we  think 
excellent  jnove)  Black  might  have  maintained  a  fierce  defence.  The  ulti- 
mate result,  however,  would  have  been  the  same. 

(A)  Had  Black  interposed  the  Knight,  he  would  have  been  mated  in  tw© 
moves. 


WHITE.    Mr.  M. 

1 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

1. 

2.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

2. 

8.  P  to  Q's  4th 

3. 

4.  Kt  takes  P 

4. 

5.  B  to  K's  3rd 

5. 

6.  B  to  Q's  3rd 

6. 

7.  P  to  Q  B's  3rd 

7. 

8.  Castles 

8. 

9.  Q  Kt  to  Q's  2nd 

9. 

10.  K  B  to  K's  2nd 

10. 

11.  P  to  K  B's  4th 

11. 

12.  P  to  K's  5th 

12. 

13.  P  takes  B 

13. 

14.  B  to  Q^s  3rd 

14 

15.  P  to  K  Kt's  4th  (c) 

15. 

16.  P  takes  P 

16. 

17.  K  to  R's  sq 

17. 

18.  Q  R  to  Q  B's  sq 

19.  K  B  takes  P  (d) 

18. 

19. 

20.  B  takes  B 

20. 

21.  P  to  K  Bs  5th  (/) 

21. 

22.  R  takes  K  Kt 

22. 

23.  QtoKR's5th(ch.) 

23. 

24.  Q  to  K  B-s  7th  (ch.) 

24. 

25.  P  to  K's  6th  (ch.) 

25. 

26.  B  to  K  Kt's  5th 

morphy's  games  of  chess. 


11 


GAME    LVIII. 


Between  Morphy  and  Kennicott. 


SOOTOH   GAMBIT. 


WHITE.    Mr.  K. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2,  Kt  to  K  B's  Srd 
8.  P  to  Q\s  4th 

4.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

5.  Kt  to  K  Kt's  5th 

6.  Kt  takes  K  B  P 

7.  B  takes  Kt  (ch.) 

8.  Q  to  K  E's  5th  (ch.) 

9.  Q  takes  B 

10.  Q  to  Q  Kt's  5th 

11.  Castles  (rt) 

12.  Q  to  Q's  5th  (ch.) 

13.  B  to  K  Kt's  5th 

14.  P  to  K  B's  4th 

15.  P  to  K  B's  5th 

16.  Q  takes  B  P 

17.  B  to  K  B's  6th  (ch.) 

18.  Q  to  K  B's  4th 

19.  B  to  K  Kt's  5th 

20.  Q  takes  Q 

21.  P  takes  B 

22.  K  to  E's  sq 

23.  E  to  K's  sq 

24.  Kt  to  Q  E's  Srd  (d) 


BLAOK.     Mr.  M. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

3.  P  takes  P 

4  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

5.  Kt  to  K  E's  3rd 

6.  Kt  takes  Kt 

7.  K  takes  B 

8.  P  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

9.  P  to  Q's  Srd 

10.  E  to  K's  sq 

11.  E  takes  K  P 

12.  E  to  K's  Srd 

13.  Q  to  K's  sq 

14.  K  to  Kt's  2nd 

15.  P  takes  P  (&) 

16.  E  to  K  Kt's  Srd 

17.  K  to  Kt's  sq 

18.  B  to  K  E's  6th 

19.  Q  to  K's  6th  (ch.)  (o) 

20.  P  takes  Q 

21.  E  takes  B  (ch.) 

22.  P  to  K's  7th 

23.  Kt  to  Q's  5th 

24.  Q  E  to  K's  sq 


And  wins. 


(a)  This  is  unquestionably  the  best  move  at  White's  command.  The 
attack  consequent  upon  its  adoption  is  not  as  familiar  to  American  players, 
we  believe,  as  some  others,  springing  from  different  variations  of  the  same 
opening,  and  we  are  therefore  induced  to  lay  the  present  game  before  our 
readers. 

If  15.  E  to  K's  4th 


(6) 


16.  K  to  E's  sq  (best) 


16.  P  to  B's  6th  (ch.) 

17.  P  to  B's  7th 

And  Black  cannot  save  the  game. 


(c)  The  winning  move,  forcing  an  exchange  of  Queens  and  Bishops,  and 
enabling  Black  to  preserve  his  Pawn  and  the  better  position. 


id)  If  24.  KttoQB'sSrd 

25.  E  to  K  Kt's  sq  (best) 

26.  E  takes  E  (ch.)  (best) 

27.  E  to  K's  sq  (best) 


24.  Q  E  to  K's  sq  (best) 

25.  E  takes  E  (ch.)  (best) 
2().  K  to  E's  sq  (best) 

27.  E  to  K  Kt's  sq  (best) 


And  play  as  White  may,  Black  wins  the  exchange  and  consequently  the 
game.  The  above  variation  is  very  instructive,  and  shows  the  great  accu- 
racy with  which  end  games  must  be  conducted. 


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GAME    LIX. 

Between  Morphy  and  Thompson. 


WHITE.    Mr.  T, 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 
8.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

4.  P  to  Q  Kt's  4th 

5.  P  to  Q  B's  3rd 

6.  P  to  Q's  4th 

7.  QtoQKt^3  3rd 

8.  Castles 

9.  P  to  K's  5th 

10.  P  takes  P  (c) 

11.  Q  Kt  to  Q's  2nd 

12.  B  to  Q  Kt's  2nd 

13.  Q  Kt  to  K's  4th 

14.  B  to  Q's  3rd 

15.  Kt  to  K  E's  4th 

16.  Kt  takes  B 

17.  P  to  K  B's  4th 

18.  E  to  K  B's  3rd  {d) 

19.  Kt  to  K  Kt's  5th 

20.  Q  takes  Kt 

21.  K  to  K  K's  3rd  (/) 

22.  Q  to  Q  Kt's  5th 

23.  Q  takes  Q  Kt  P 

24.  Kt  takes  R 

25.  R  to  K  B's  sq 

26.  P  to  K  B's  5th 

27.  Kt  to  K  B's  2nd 

28.  R  to  Q  Kt's  sq 


EVANS'  GAMBIT. 

BLACK.     Mr.  M, 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

3.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 
4  B  takes  Kt  P 

5.  B  to  Q  E's  4th  (a) 

6.  P  takes  P 

7.  Q  to  K  B's  8rd  (6) 

8.  P  to  Q's  3rd 

9.  P  takes  K  P 

10.  P  takes  P 

11.  K  Kt  to  K's  2nd 

12.  Castles 

13.  Q  to  K  Kt's  3rd 
14  B  to  K  B's  4th 

15.  Q  to  K  E's  4th 

16.  Kt  takes  Kt 

17.  K  R  to  K's  sq 

18.  Kt  to  Q  Kt's  5lh  {e) 

19.  Kt  takes  B 

20.  Q  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

21.  R  to  K's  6th 

22.  R  takes  R 

23.  Q  R  to  K's  sq 

24.  B  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

25.  Kt  to  K's  6th 

26.  Q  to  K  Kt's  5th 

27.  Q  to  K's  7th 

28.  Kt  to  Q's  8th  {g) 
And  "White  resigns. 


(a)  It  has  long  been  a  mooted  point  among  chess  authorities  whether 
this  or  5.  B  to  Q  B's  4th  be  the  better  move.  On  the  whole,  we  should  be 
inclined  to  accord  the  preference  to  the  latter,  as  leaving  fewer  modes  of 
attack  at  the  choice  of  the  first  player. 

(6)  Black's  best  defensive  move. 

(c)  The  usual,  and  undoubtedly  the  strongest  move,  is  10.  R  to  K's  sq. 
If  10.  B  to  Q  R's  3rd,  Black's  rejoinder  is  10.  K  Kt  to  K's  2nd,  and  all  attack 
is  at  an  end.    Let  us  examine 

10.  R  to  K's  sq  10.  B  to  Q's  2nd. 

"We  think  this  move  of  the  Bishop  first  occurred  in  a  game  played  by  con- 
sultation at  the  Chicago  Chess  Club;  see  Chess  Montlily,  August,  1857, 
p.  239.  In  the  game  alluded  to,  the  defence  committed  the  error  of  playing 
their  Queen  at  move  sixth  to  K's  2nd  instead  of  K  B's  3rd.  But  for  that 
mistake,  the  move  of  10.  B  to  Q's  2nd,  would,  it  appears  to  us,  have  given 
them  the  better  game.  The  variations  are  very  numerous,  and  our  limited 
Bpace  will  only  allow  us  to  present  the  leading  one. 


11.  Kt  takes  K  P 

12.  B  takes  B  P  (ch.) 

18.  E  takes  Kt  (ch.)  (best) 


11.  Kt  takes  Kt 

12.  Q  takes  B  (best) 

13.  Kt  to  K's  2nd 


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14.  B  to  Q  E's  3rd 

15.  E  takes  Kt  (best) 

16.  P  takes  Q 


14.  Castles  (with  K  K) 

15.  Q  takes  Q 

16.  P  takes  P 
And  must  win. 


id)  If  18.  Kt  to  Kt's  5th,  Black's  reply  is  18.  E  to  K's  6th. 

(e)  It  was  of  the  utmost  importance  to  get  rid  of  White's  King's  Bishop, 
as  with  such  a  powerful  auxiliary  the  attack  planned  by  the  £r8t  player 
must  have  been  irresistible. 

(/)  It  is  apparent  that  "White  would  have  lost  a  piece  by  capturing  the 
Queen's  Pawn ;  thus ; 

21.  B  takes  P  ^  21.  Kt  takes  B 

22.  Q  takes  Kt  (if)  22.  B  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

{g)  This  leaves  "White  no  resource.  If  the  Knight  ia  taken  with  BooK, 
Black  mates  in  two  moves. 


GAME    LX. 

Bet-ween  Morphy  and  Schulten* 

BUT  LOPEZ  knight's  GAME. 


"WHITE.    Mr.  M. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  Kt  to  K  Bs 3rd 

8.  K  B  to  Q  Kt's  5th 

4.  P  to  Q  B's  3rd 

5.  Castles 

6.  P  to  Q's  4th 

7.  P  takes  P 

8.  P  to  Q's  5th 

9.  P  to  Q's  6th 

10.  B  to  K  B's  4th  (6) 

11.  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

12.  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

13.  B  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

14.  Q  B  takes  P 

15.  Q  takes  B 

16.  Q  E  to  Q's  sq 

17.  Q  to  K  B's  4th 

18.  Kt  to  K's  5th 

19.  Q  takes  Q 

20.  Kt  to  K  Kt's  4th 

21.  Kt  takes  K  B  P 

22.  P  to  K's  5th 

23.  E  to  Q's  3rd 
24  Q  Kt  to  Q's  5th 

25.  B  takes  Kt 

26.  E  to  K  Kt's  8rd  (ch.) 

27.  Kt  to  Q  Kt's  6th 

28.  E  to  Q's  sq 

29.  E  to  Q's  4th 

80.  K  E  to  Kt's  4th  (e) 


BLACK.     1/Lr.  S. 
A.  P  to  K'S  4th 
2.  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 
8.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th  (a) 
4  K  Kt  to  K's  2nd 

5.  Castles 

6.  P  takes  P 

7.  B  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

8.  Q  Kt  to  Kt's  sq 

9.  P  takes  P 

10.  B  to  Q  B's  2nd 

11.  P  to  Q  E's  3rd 

12.  P  to  Q  Kt's  4th 
18.  B  to  Q  Kt's  2nd 
14  B  takes  B 

15.  P  to  K  E's  3rd  (c) 

16.  Kt  to  Q  B's  sq 

17.  Kt  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

18.  Q  to  K  B's  3rd  ((f) 

19.  P  takes  Q 

20.  K  to  Kt's  2nd 

21.  B  to  Q  B's  3rd 

22.  P  to  Q  E's  4th 

23.  E  to  K  E's  sq 

24.  Kt  to  Q  B's  5th 

25.  P  takes  B 

26.  K  to  B's  sq 

27.  E  to  Q  E's  2nd 

28.  B  to  Q  Kt's  4th 

29.  E  to  Q  B'a  2nd 


And  "White  wins. 


(a)  The  defence  known  as  the  "Berlin  Defence,"  beginning  with  3.  Ktto 
K  B's  3rd,  is  recojmized  as  the  best 


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(&)  We  are  decidedly  of  opinion  that  this  is  much  stronger  and  much 
more  effective  than  the  "  book  move"  of  10.  Q  takes  P. 

(c)  Uncalled  for. 

(d)  Evidently  the  best  on  the  board,  bad  as  it  looks. 

(e)  Winning  by  force.  This  game  lias  certainly  no  claims  to  brilliancy, 
but  illustrates  the  difficulty  of  a  correct  defence  to  the  Ruy  Lopez  Game, 
White's  tenth  move  certainly  appears  to  be  an  improvement  on  that  given 
in  the  leading  treatises  of  the  day. 


GAME    LXI. 

Played  at  the  New  Orleans  Chess  Clnb,  January,  1858, 
Mr.  Morphy  playing  this  and  two  other  games  simultane- 
ously, without  sight  of  the  boards. 

EVANS'    GAMBIT. 


WHITE.    Mr.  M. 

BLACK.      Mr.  — 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

1.  P  to  K'S  4th 

2.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

2.  Kt  to  Q  B'S  3rd 

3.  KBtoQB's4th 

3.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

4.  P  to  Q  Kt's  4th 

4.  B  takes  Kt  P 

5.  P  to  Q  B's  3rd 

5.  B  to  Q  E's  4th 

6.  P  to  Q's  4th 

6.  P  takes  P 

T.  Castles 

7.  P  to  K  E's  3rd  (a) 

8.  Q  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

8.  Q  to  K  B's  3rd 

9.  P  to  K's  5th 

9.  Q  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

10.  P  takes  P 

10.  K  Kt  to  K's  2nd 

11.  P  to  Q's  5th 

11.  Q  Kt  to  Q's  sq 

12.  P  to  Q's  6th  (6) 

12.  K  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

13.  Q  B  to  R's  3rd 

13,  Kt  to  K's  3rd 

14.  B  takes  Kt  (c) 

14.  K  B  P  takes  B  (d) 

15.  P  takes  P 

15.  B  takes  P 

16.  Q  Kt  to  B's  3rd 

16.  P  to  Q  E's  3rd 

17.  Q  R  to  Q's  sq 

17.  Kt  takes  P 

18.  Kt  takes  Kt 

18.  B  takes  Kt 

19.  P  to  K  B's  4th 

19.  B  takes  Kt 

20.  Q  takes  B 

20.  Q  to  K  B's  3rd 

21.  Q  to  her  B's  5th 

21.  Q  to  K  B's  sq  (e) 

22.  E  to  Q's  6th 

22.  Q  to  B's  4th 

23.  R  to  Q's  5th 

23.  Q  to  K  B's  sq 

24.  Q  to  Q  E's  5th 

24.  Q  to  K  B's  3rd 

25.  P  to  K  B's  5th  (/) 

25.  P  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

26.  Q  to  K's  sq 

26.  P  to  K's  4th  ig) 

27.  E  takes  K  P  (ch.) 

27.  K  to  B's  2nd 

28.  Q  to  K's  4th 

28.  Q  to  Q  B's  3rd 

29.  E  to  K's  7th  (ch.) 

29.  K  to  Kt's  sq 

White  announced 

mate  in  four  moves. 

(a)  Weak ;  the  accepted  move  is  P  to  Q's  3rd. 

(b)  White  offers  to  give  up  a  second  Pawn  the  further  to  cramp  his  adver- 
sary's game  and  strengthen  bis  own  attack. 

(c)  Tliis  was  deeme'd  advisable,  as  the  Knight  might  subsequently  have 
given  White  a  good  deal  of  trouble. 

((?)  We  should  have  preferred  re-raking  with  Queen  or  Queen's  Pawn, 
(e)  An  exchange  of  Queens,  even  at  the  loss  of  Eook  for  Bishop,  would 
greatly  relieve  Black's  game.     White  declined  availing  himself  of  his  antag- 


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onist's  offer,  the  superiority  of  his  position  being  such  as  to  insure  a  speedy 
victory. 

(/)  This  leaves  Black  no  resource.  If  he  capture  the  Rook,  he  evidently 
loses  at  once. 

{g)  The  game  being  irretrievable,  it  is  immaterial  what  course  Black  may 
pursue. 


GAME    LXII. 

Between  Mr.  Paul  Morphy,  and  Mr,  F.  Perrin,  Mr.  "W. 
J.  A.  Fuller,  and  Mr.  D.  W.  Fiske,  consulting  together. 

TWO  knights'  defence. 


WHITE.    The  Allies. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

3.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

4.  Kt  to  K  Kt's  5th 

5.  P  takes  P 

6.  P  to  Q's  3rd  (&) 

7.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

8.  Q  to  K's  2nd 

9.  P  takes  Kt 

10.  P  to  K  E's  3rd  (d) 

11.  Kt  to  K  E's  2nd 

12.  B  to  K's  3rd 

13.  Castles 

14.  P  to  K  B's  4th  (e) 

15.  Kt  takes  P 

16.  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

17.  Q  to  K  B's  2nd 

18.  B  to  Q's  4th 

19.  Kt  takes  Kt 

20.  Q  E  to  K's  sq 

21.  E  takes  E 

22.  Kt  to  K  E's  4th 

23.  P  to  Q  B's  5th 

24.  B  takes  B 

25.  P  to  Q  B's  4th 

26.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

27.  P  takes  B 

28.  P  to  K  B's  4th 

29.  P  takes  P 

30.  Q  takes  Q 

31.  K  to  Kt's  2nd 

32.  P  to  Q's  6th 

83.  P  takes  P 

84.  P  to  Q  B's  5th 

35.  E  to  K  B's  3rd 

36.  K  to  Kt's  3rd 

37.  E  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

38.  K  to  B's  3rd 
89.  P  to  Q's  7th 

40.  K  to  K's  4th 

41.  R  takes  P 

42.  E  to  Q  B's  7th 


BLACK.      Mr.  M. 


1. 


P  to  K's  4th 

Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

Kt  to  K  B's  3rd  (o) 

P  to  Q's  4th 

Kt  to  Q  E's  4th 

P  to  K  E"s  8rd  (c) 

P  to  K's  5th 

Kt  takes  B 

K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

Castles 

Kt  to  K  E's  2nd 

B  to  Q's  3rd 

Q  to  K  E's  5th 

P  takes  P  (en  passant) 

Q  to  K  E's  4th 

E  to  K's  sq 

Kt  to  K  B's  3rd  (/) 

Kt  to  K's  5th 

E  takes  Kt 

B  to  K  B's  4th 

B  takes  E 

E  to  K  B's  sq  {g) 

B  to  K's  4th 

Q  takes  B 

P  to  K  Kt's  4th 

B  takes  Kt 

E  to  K's  sq 

Q  to  K's  6th 

P  takes  P 

E  takes  Q 

K  to  Kt's  2nd 

P  takes  P 

E  to  Q's  6th 

K  to  Kt's  3rd 

E  to  Q's  7th  (ch.) 

P  to  K  B's  4th 

P  to  B's  5th  (ch.) 

E  to  K  E's  7th 

E  takes  P  (ch.) 

E  to  K  E's  sq 

K  to  B's  3rd 

K  to  K's  2nd 


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43.  E  to  Q  B's  8th  43.  R  to  Q's  sq 

44.  E  takes  E  (h)  44.  K  takes  E 

45.  P  to  B's  6th  45.  P  to  Q  Es  4th 

46.  K  to  Q's  5th  (i)  46.  K  to  K^s  2nd 

47.  K  to  K's  4th  47.  K  to  Q's  sq 

48.  P  to  Q  Kt's  3rd  48.  K  to  K's  2nd 

49.  P  to  Q  E's  8rd  49.  K  to  Q's  sq 
60.  P  to  Kt's  4th  50.  P  takes  P 
51.  P  takes  P  {g) 

And  Black  resigns. 

(a)  This  deviation  from  the  line  of  play  laid  down  in  the  books  as  the 
best  Black  can  adopt,  gives  rise  to  many  highly  interesting  variations,  and 
generally  leads  to  positions  affording  far  more  scope  for  brilliant  combina- 
tions than  the  more  correct  but  more  dull  and  monotonous  routine  of  the 
"Giuoco  Piano." 

(5)  Far  better  than  checking  with  Bishop  at  Knight's  5th,  as  recom- 
mended by  most  authors.  Indeed  we  look  upon  this  move  as  the  only  one 
which  enables  the  first  player  to  preserve  his  advantage.* 

(c)  B  to  Q's  8rd  leaves  Black  more  resources. 

{d)  This  is  extremely  well  played,  and  on  a  careful  examination  of  the 
position  will  be  found  to  be  the  only  move  on  the  board  which  does  not 
turn  the  scales  in  Black's  favor. 

(e)  The  proper  style. 

(/)  Black  s  attack  has  been  foiled.  He  has  a  Pawn  less  than  his  adver- 
sary and  no  advantage  in  position  to  compensate  for  the  loss. 

(g)  P  to  K  B's  4th  was  certainly  preferable. 

(A)  P  to  Q  B's  6th  would  have  shortened  the  contest, 

(i)  Ingenious,  but  a  loss  of  time,  as  Black's  next  move  compels  the  "White 
King  to  retreat. 

(j)  This  game,  highly  creditable  to  the  skill  of  the  three  distinguished 
adversaries  of  Mr.  Morphy,  is  an  instructive  specimen  of  the  "Two 
Knights'  Game."  The  defence  of  the  allies,  simple  and  correct,  from  the 
debut  to  the  termination,  deserves  especial  praise. 


GAME      LXIII. 

Bet-ween  Morphy  and  an  Amateur. 

MTJZIO    GAMBIT. 


{Remove 

White's  Queen's  Knight.) 

WHITE.     Mr.  M. 

BLACK.      A. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  P  to  K  B's  4th 

2.  P  takes  P 

8.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

3.  P  to  K  Kt's  4th 

4.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

4.  P  to  Kt's  5th 

5.  P  to  Q's  4th 

5.  P  takes  Kt 

6.  Castles 

6.  B  to  K  E's  3rd 

7.  Q  takes  P 

7.  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

8.  B  takes  K  B  P  (ch.) 

S.  K  takes  B 

9.  Q  to  K  E's  5th  (ch.) 

9.  K  to  Kt's  2nd 

•  It  is,  perhaps,  but  just  to  say  that  this  move  owes  its  introdnction  to  Mr.  Mor- 
pby,  from  whom  the  Allies  first  learned  its  strength.— D.  W.  F. 


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10.  Q  B  takes  P 

11.  R  takes  B 

12.  Q  R  to  K  B's  sq 

13.  Q  to  K  PJs  4th 

14.  Q  to  K  B*s  6th  (ch.) 

15.  Q  takes  Kt 

16.  K  R  to  B's  3rd 

17.  P  to  K  R's  4th 

18.  P  to  K  R's  5th 

19.  P  takes  Kt 


10.  B  takes  B 

11.  KttoKR'sSrd 

12.  Q  to  K's  sq 

13.  P  to  Q's  8rd  (a) 

14.  K  to  Kt's  sq 

15.  B  to  Q's  2nd 

16.  Kt  to  K's  2nd 
IT.  Kt  to  Kt's  3rd 

18.  B  to  K  Kt's  5th 

19.  P  takes  P  (&) 


And  "White  mates  in  three  moves. 

(a)  As  good  a  move  as  Black  could  make  in  a  position  of  such  difficulty. 
To  save  the  piece  was  utterly  impossible. 
(6)  If  B  takes  R,  White  replies  with  P  to  Kt's  7th,  with  an  easy  game. 


GAME    LXIV, 


Odds  of  Pawn  and  move.     Occurring  in  the  match 
between  Mr.  Paul  Morphy  and  Mr.  0.  H.  Stanley. 


(Eenuyoe  JBlach  KB  P.) 


WHITE.    Mr.  S. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  P  to  Q's  4th 
8.  P  to  K's  5th 

4.  Q  B  to  K's  3rd  (a) 

5.  P  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

6.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd  (&) 

7.  B  takes  P 

8.  Kt  takes  Kt 

9.  P  to  Q  B's  8rd  (c) 

10.  B  to  Q  Kt's  5th  (ch.) 

11.  B  takes  Kt  (ch.) 

12.  Q  to  K  R's  5th  (ch.) 

13.  Q  to  K  Kt's  4th    ' 
14  Castles 

15.  Q  takes  K  P  (ch.) 

16.  K  R  to  Q's  sq 

17.  Q  to  K  Kt's  4th  (e) 
IS.  Q  Kt  to  Q's  2nd 

19.  Q  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

20.  Q  to  Q"s  3rd 

21.  QtoQB's2nd(g') 

22.  <  >  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd  (A) 

23.  KttoK's  2nd 

24.  V  i.ikes  R 

25.  F  l(.  Q  B's  4th  (j) 

26.  R  takes  Q  P 

27.  Q  to  Q  B's  3rd  (ch.) 

28.  Ki  to  Kt's  8rd 


BLAOK.     Mr.  M. 

1.  P  to  K's  3rd 

2.  P  to  Q's  4th 

3.  P  to  Q  B's  4th 
4  Q  to  Q  Kfs  3rd 

5.  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

6.  P  takes  P 

7.  Kt  takes  B 

8.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

9.  Kt  to  K's  2nd 

10.  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

11.  P  takes  B 

12.  P  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

13.  Castles 

14.  B  to  Q  R's  3rd  (d) 

15.  K  to  R's  sq 

16.  QRtoK'ssq 

17.  Q  R  takes  K  P  (/) 

18.  Q  B  to  Q  B's  sq 

19.  K  B  to  Q's  3rd 

20.  Q  B  to  R's  3rd 

21.  R  to  K  R's  4th 

22.  P  to  Q  B's  4th 

23.  R  takes  Kt  (i) 

24.  Q  to  Q's  sq 

25.  R  takes  K  R  P 

26.  Q  to  K's  R's  5th 

27.  K  to  Kt's  sq      . 

28.  Q  to  K  R's  6th 


And  White  resigns. 


84  morpiiy's  games  of  chess. 

(a)  Not  orthodox ;  White  should  have  played  K  B  to  Q's  3rd,  or  P  to  Q 
B's  8rd. 
(&)  If  6.  P  to  Q  B's  Srd  6.  P  takes  P 

7.  P  takes  P  (or  A)  7.  B  to  Kt's  5th  (ch.) 

And  Black  must  win  a  Pawn  or  debar  the  White  Bang  from  Castling. 

(A) 

7.  B  takes  P  7.  Kt  takes  B 

8,  Q  takes  Kt  (best)  8.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

With  a  fine  game. 

(c)  Had  White  checked  with  the  Bishop  at  Kt's  5th,  Black's  reply  would 
have  been  K  to  Q's  sq,  winning  a  piece. 

(c?)  Advisedly  leaving  the  King's  Pawn  to  be  taken, 

(e)  He  would  obviously  have  lost  a  piece  by  taking  the  Queen's  Bishop's 
Pawn. 

(/)  White's  mistake  in  capturing  the  unprotected  King's  Pawn  of  his 
antagonist  a  few  moves  back  is  now  apparent.  Black  has  "gained  a  Pawn 
in  return  for  the  one  sacrificed,  and  has,  besides,  a  fine  attacking  situation. 

(!7)  Why  not  P  to  Q  B's  4th  ? 

(h)  If  22.  K  Kt  to  B's  Srd  22.  B  takes  E  P  (ch.) 

28.  Kt  takes  B  (best)  23.  Q  takes  B  P  (ch.) 

24.  K  to  R's  sq  24.  E  to  B's  5th 

And  White  cannot  save  the  game.  His  proper  play  was  22.  P  to  K  E's  3rd, 

(i)  Perfectly  safe. 

(j)  If,  instead  of  advancing  this  Pawn,  White  had  moved  Kt  to  Kt's  Srd. 
Black  would  have  answered  with  Q  to  K  E's  5th,  winning  in  a  few  moves. 


GAME     LXV. 

Between  Morphy  and  Lowenthal. 

SICILIAN  OPENING. 

WHITE.    Mr.  M.  BLACK.    Mr.  L. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th  1.  P  to  Q  B's  4th 

2.  P  to  K  B's  4th  2.  P  to  K's  Srd 

3.  K  Kt  to  K  B's  Srd  8.  P  to  Q's  4th 

4.  P  takes  P  4  P  takes  P 

5.  P  to  Q's  4th  5.  Q  B  to  K  Kt's  5th 

6.  K  B  to  K's  2nd  6.  B  takes  Kt 

7.  B  takes  B  7.  K  Kt  to  B's  Srd 

8.  Castles  S.  K  B  to  K's  2nd 

9.  Q  B  to  K's  Srd  9.  P  takes  P 

10.  Q  B  takes  P  10.  Castles 

11.  Kt  to  Q  B's  Srd  11.  Q  Kt  to  Q  B's  Srd 

12.  B  takes  Kt  12.  B  takes  B 

13.  Kt  takes  Q  P  13.  B  takes  Q  Kt  P 

14.  Q  E  to  Q  Kt's  sq  14.  B  to  Q's  5th  (ch.) 

15.  K  to  E's  sq  15.  E  to  Q  Kt's  sq 

16.  P  to  Q  B's  Srd  16.  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

17.  P  to  K  B's  5th  17.  Q  to  K  E's  5th 

18.  P  to  K  Kt's  Srd  18.  Q  to  K  Kt's  4th 

19.  P  to  K  B's  6th  19.  Kt  to  K's  4th 

20.  P  takes  P  20.  K  E  to  Q's  sq 

21.  B  to  K's  4th  21.  Q  takes  P  at  Kt's  Tth 

22.  Q  to  K  E's  6th  22.  E  to  Q's  Srd 


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85 


28.  B  takes  P  (ch.) 

23.  K  to  B's  sq 

24.  B  to  K's  4th 

24.  R  to  K  R's  3rd 

25.  Q  to  K  B's  5th 

25.  Q  takes  K  Kt  P 

26.  R  to  Q  Kfs  2nd 

26.  Q  R  to  K's  sq 

27.  Kt  to  K  B's  Cth 

27.  R  to  K's  3rd 

28.  R  to  K  Kt's  2nd 

28.  Q  takes  R  (ch.)  (a) 

29.  B  takes  Q 

29.  K  R  takes  Kt 

30.  Q  takes  K  E 

30.  R  takes  Q 

31.  R  takes  R 

31.  Kt  to  K  Kt's  5th 

32.  R  to  K  B's  5th 

32.  P  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

33.  B  to  Q's  5th 

83.  Kt  to  K  R-s  3rd 

34.  R  to  K  B's  6th 

34.  K  to  K  Kt's  2nd 

35.  R  to  Q  B's  6th 

85.  P  to  Q  R's  4th 

36.  R  to  Q  B's  7th 

86.  K  to  Kt's  3rd 

87.  K  to  Kt's  2nd 

87.  P  to  K  B's  3rd 

38.  K  to  B's  3rd 

88.  KttoKB's4th 

39.  B  to  K's  4th 

39.  K  to  Kt's  4th 

40.  B  takes  Kt 

40.  K  takes  B 

41.  P  to  K  R's  4th 

41.  K  to  Kt's  3rd 

42.  E  to  Q  B's  6th 

42.  K  to  R's  4th 

43.  K  to  Kt's  3rd 

43.  P  to  K  B's  4th 

44.  R  to  K  B's  6th 

44.  P  to  B's  5th  (ch.) 

45.  K  takes  P 

45.  B  to  B's  7th 

46.  K  to  K's  4th 

46.  B  to  B's  4th 

47.  R  to  B's  5th  (ch, ) 

47.  K  takes  P 

48.  R  takes  B 

48.  P  takes  R 

49.  K  to  Q's  5th 

And  "White  wins. 

The  present  game  was  played  on  the  25th  of  May,  1850,  during  the  brief 
visit  of  the  distinguished  Hungarian  master  to  New  Orleans. 

(a)  This  is  evidently  the  only  move. 


GAME    LXVI. 

Between  Morphy,  playing  without  seeing  the  board,  and 
Lichtenhein. 

king's  knight's  gambit. 

WHITE.    Mr.  M. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  P  to  K  B's  4th 
S.  K  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

4.  P  takes  P 

5.  K  B  to  Q  Kt's  5th  (ch.) 

6.  P  takes  P 

7.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

8.  P  to  K  Kt's  3rd  (6) 

9.  Castles 

10.  K  to  K  R's  sq 

11.  K  Kt  to  K's  5th 

12.  P  to  Q's  4th 

13.  Q  to  K  R's  5th 
14  K  B  takes  B  P  (ch.) 

15.  Q  takes  K  Kt  (ch.) 

16.  B  to  K  Kt's  5th  (ch.) 


BLACK.     Mr.  L. 

i. 

P  to  K's  4th 

i. 

P  takes  P 

3. 

P  to  Q's  4th 

4.  K  B  to  K's  2nd  (a) 

5. 

P  to  Q  B's  3rd 

6. 

P  takes  P 

T. 

K  B  to  K  R's  5th  (ch.) 

8. 

P  takes  P 

9. 

P  takes  P  (ch.) 

10. 

K  B  to  K  B's  3rd 

11. 

K  Kt  to  K  R's  8rd 

12. 

K  B  takes  Kt 

13. 

Q  takes  Q  P 

14  K  Kt  takes  B 

1&  K  to  Q's  sq 

16. 

K  B  to  K  B's  3rd 

86 


M0RPHY8    GAMES    OF    CHESS. 


17.  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

18.  K  K  takes  K  B 

19.  B  to  K  B's  4th  (ch.) 

20.  R  to  Q^s  Gth 

21.  Kt  to  K's  4th  (c) 

22.  K  E  takes  B  (ch.) 

23.  Q  takes  Kt  (ch.) 

24.  Kt  to  Q's  6th 

25.  Q  to  Q  Kt's  7th  (ch.) 

26.  B  to  Q's  2nd  (ch.) 

27.  Kt  to  B's  4th  (ch.) 

28.  P  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 


17.  Q  B  to  Q's  2nd 

18.  K  to  Q  B's  2nd 

19.  K  to  Kt's  2nd 

20.  Q  to  Q  B's  4th 

21.  Q  takes  Q  B  P 

22.  Kt  takes  K  R 
28.  K  to  R's  3rd 

24.  K  R  to  Q's  sq 

25.  K  to  R's  4th 

26.  Q  takes  B 

27.  K  to  R's  5th 


Mate. 


(a)  The  German  Handhitch  (p.  250)  recommends  the  preferable  move 
of  4.  K  B  to  Q's  3rd. 

(6)  The  reader  will  observe  that  the  game  now  assumes  something  of 
the  character  of  the  Cunningham  or  Three  Pawns  Gambit. 

(c)  Stronger  than  taking  the  Bishop  at  once. 


LXVII. 

Mr.  Paul  Morphy  gives  the  odds  of  Queen's  Knight  and 
move  to  Mr.  Charles  A.  Maurian,  of  New  Orleans. 

ALLGAIER  GAMBIT. 
{Remove  Black^s  Qiteen's  Knight.) 


WHITE.     Mr.  Mau: 

rian.               black.     Mr.  Morphy. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  P  to  K  B's  4th 

2.  P  takes  P 

3.  K  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

8.  P  to  K  Kt's  4th 

4.  P  to  K  R's  4th 

4  P  to  K  Kt's  5th 

5.  K  Kt  to  K's  5th 

5.  K  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd  (a) 

6.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

6.  P  to  Q's  4th 

7.  B  takes  P 

7.  Kt  takes  B 

8.  P  takes  Kt 

8.  P  to  K  B's  6th  (&) 

9.  Castles 

9.  Q  takes  K  R  P 

10.  P  to  Q's  4th 

10.  P  to  B's  7th  (ch.) 

11.  E  takes  P 

11.  P  to  Kt's  6th 

12.  R  to  K  B's  4th 

12.  Q  to  K  R's  7th  (ch.) 

13.  K  to  B's  sq 

18.  Q  to  K  R's  Sth  (ch.)' 

14  K  to  K's  2nd 

14  Q  takes  Kt  P  (ch.) 

15.  K  to  Q's  3rd 

15.  Q  to  K  R's  6th 

16.  Qto  K'ssq 

16.  B  to  K  B's  4th  (ch.) 

17.  K  to  Q  B's  4th 

17.  Castles 

18.  Q  to  Q  R's  5th 

IS.  P  to  Q  R's  3rd 

19.  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

19.  B  takes  Q  B  P 

20.  E  takes  K  B  P 

20.  B  to  Q's  3rd 

21.  Kt  to  Q  Kt's  5th 

21.  P  takes  Kt  (ch.) 

22.  K  takes  P  (c) 

22.  K  to  Q  Kt's  sq 

23.  B  to  K  Kt's  5th 

23.  B  takes  Kt 

24  B  takes  R 

24.  R  takes  B 

25.  Q  to  Q  B's  3rd 

25.  R  takes  Q  P  (ch.) 

26.  K  to  Q  B's  4th 

26.  R  takes  Q  P  (ch.) 

27.  Q  takes  R 

27.  Q  to  K's  3rd  (ch.) 

28.  B  to  Q's  6th  (ch.) 

28.  Q  to  Q's  5th 

And  Black  Wins. 

MORPHY  S  GAMES  OF  CHESS. 


87 


(a)  For  an  analvsis  of  this  defence  to  the  Allgaler  Gambit,  see  the  first 
volume  of  the  "  Chess  Monthly,"  pages  234—236.'" 
(5)  The  Leiffaden  here  Drakes  Black  plav  8.  K  B  to  K's  2nd. 
(c)  Taking  with  the  Queen  would  be  no  better. 


GAME     LXVIII. 

Mr.  Paul  Morphy  gives  h\a  Queen's  Rook  to  an  Amateur 
of  the  Kew  Orleans  Club. 


TWO  bishops'  openinq. 

{Remove  WhiWs  Queeii's  Rook.) 


WHITE.     Mr.  M. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

3.  P  to  Q's  4th 

4.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd  (&) 

5.  B  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

6.  Kt  toKKt's5th 

7.  Castles 

8.  P  to  K  B's  4th 

9.  P  to  K  B's  5th 

10.  Q  to  K  R's  5th 

11.  B  to  Q's  5th 

12.  Kt  K  takes  E  P  (c) 

13.  Q  B  to  K  Kt's  5th 

14.  Kt  to  Q's  2nd 

15.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

16.  P  to  K  B's  6th 

17.  Q  to  K  R's  4th 

18.  P  takes  K  Kt  P 

19.  K  to  R's  sq 

20.  K  takes  B 

21.  B  takes  Kt  (ch.) 

22.  B  takes  R  (dis.  ch.) 

23.  B  to  K's  7th 

24.  Q  to  Kfs  5th  (ch.) 

25.  E  to  K  B's  4th 


BLACK.      A. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

3.  P  takes  P  (a) 

4.  P  to  Q  Kt's  4th 

5.  P  to  Q's  3rd 

6.  Kt  to  K  R's  3rd 

7.  Castles 

8.  P  to  Q  R's  4th 

9.  Q  to  K  B's  3rd 

10.  P  to  Q  R's  5th 

11.  P  to  Q  B's  3rd 

12.  K  takes  Kt 

13.  Q  to  K's  4th 

14.  P  takes  K  B 

15.  Q  to  K's  sq 

16.  Q  B  to  K  Kt's  5th 

17.  B  takes  Kt 

18.  P  to  Q's  6th  (dis.  ch.) 

19.  B  takes  P  (ch.) 

20.  K  takes  P 

21.  K  to  R's  2nd 

22.  K  to  Kt's  sq 

23.  KttoQB'sSrd 

24.  K  to  E's  2nd 


And  Black  resigns. 


(a)  He  ought  rather  to  have  taken  with  the  Bishop. 
(&)  White  might  have  played  4  B  takes  K  B  P  (ch.),  but  was  averse  to 
an  exchange  of  pieces  at  such  an  early  stage  of  the  game. 
(c)  The  game  from  this  point  is  very  lively  and  animated. 


88  MORPHY  S  GAMES  OF  CHESS. 


GAME     LXIX. 

Between  Mr.  Morphy  and  an  Amateur  of  the  New 
Orleans  Club. 

EVANS'  GAMBIT. 

{Remove  WhiWs  Qtteen's  Knight.) 

WHITE.      Mr.  M.  BLACK.      A. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th  1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd  2.  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

3.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th  3,  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

4.  P  to  Q  Kt's  4th  4.  B  takes  Kt  P 

5.  P  to  Q  B's  3rd  5.  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

6.  Castles  6.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

7.  P  to  Q's  4th  7.  P  takes  P 

8.  P  takes  P  8.  B  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

9.  Q  B  to  R's  3rd  (a)  9.  P  to  Q's  3rd 

10.  P  to  K's  5th  10.  Kt  to  K's  5th 

11.  R  to  K's  sq  11.  P  to  Q's  4th 

12.  K  B  to  Q  Kt's  5th  12.  Q  B  to  K  Kt's  5th 

13.  Q  R  to  Q  B's  sq  13.  Q  to  Q's  2ad 

14.  Q  to  Q  R's  4th  14.  B  takes  Kt 

15.  R  takes  Q  Kt  15.  Castles  (Q  R) 

16.  P  to  K's  6th  (&)  16.  P  takes  P 


17.  R  takes  B 


And  White  wins. 


{a)  When  giving  the  odds  of  a  Rook  or  Knignt,  the  first  player  will  fre» 
quently  find  the  move  in  the  text  quite  as  effective  as  the  more  customary 
ones  of  P  to  K's  5th  or  P  to  Q's  5th. 

(6)  Much  better  than  capturing  the  King's  Bishop  at  once,  as  the  Black 
Queen  might  then  have  been  moved  to  K  Kt'a  6th,  and  the  issue  of  the  con- 
test rendered  doubtful. 


GAME     LXX. 

Played  at  the  New  York  Club  between  Mr.  Morphy  and 
an  Amateur. 


-f- 


SCOTCH  GAMBIT. 
{Eemove  White's  Queen's  Knight.) 
WHITE.      Mr.  M.  BLACK.      A. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th  1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd  2.  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 
8.  P  to  Q's  4th  3.  Kt  takes  P 

4.  Kt  takes  P  4,  Kt  to  K's  3rd 

5.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th  5.  K  Kt  tc  B's  3rd 

6.  Kt  takes  K  B  P  (a)  6.  K  takes  Kt 

7.  B  takes  Kt  (ch.)  7.  K  takes  B 

8.  P  to  K's  5th  8.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

9.  Castles  9.  Kt  to  Q's  4th 
10.  Q  to  K  Kt's  4th  (ch.)  10.  K  takes  P  (&) 


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89 


11.  Q  B  to  K  Kt's  5th 

12.  Q  E  to  Q's  sq 

13.  Q  to  K's  4th 

14.  P  to  Q  B's  4th 

15.  R  takes  Kt 

16.  E  takes  B 
IT.  Q  to  K's  5th 


11.  QtoKB's  sq 

12.  K  to  Q's  3rd 

13.  Q  to  K  B's  2nd 

14.  K  to  Q  B's  3rd 

15.  K  to  Q  Kfs  3rd 

16.  P  to  Q  B's  3rd  (c) 

17.  E  to  K's  sq 

White  mates  in  four  moves. 


(a)  The  sacrifice  of  the  Knight  at  this  juncture,  as  most  of  our  readers  are 
probably  aware,  is  one  of  the  many  felicitous  inventions  of  Mi\  Cochrane. 

(&)  Black  is  eager  to  preserve  his  numerical  superiority,  and  loses  the 
game  in  the  attempt.  He  should  have  retreated  bis  K  to  B's  2nd,  and  on 
White's  then  playing  Q  to  Q  B's  4th,  sustained  his  Kt  with  P  to  Q  B's  3rd, 
and  submitted  to  the  loss  of  the  Bishop. 

(c)  The  game  is  irredeemably  lost,  whether  he  take  the  proffered  Eook 
ornot 


GAME     LXXI. 

Played  at  the  New  Orleans  Club  between  Mr.  Morphy 
and  an  Amateur. 


MUZIO    aAMBIT. 
{Remove  White's  Queen's  Knight.) 


WHITE.     Mr.  M. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  P  to  K  B's  4th 
8.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

4.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

5.  Castles 

6.  Q  takes  P 

7.  P  to  K's  5th 

8.  B  takes  K  B  P  (ch.) 

9.  P  to  Q's  4th 

10.  Q  B  to  K's  Srd 

11.  Q  to  K  Rs  5th  (ch.) 

12.  R  takes  P  (ch.) 

13.  R  takes  Kt  (ch.) 

14.  B  to  Q's  4th  (ch.) 

15.  R  to  K's  sq  (ch.) 

16.  Q  to  Q's  5th  (ch.) 

17.  Q  to  K  B's  3rd  (ch.) 

18.  Q  to  K  R's  5th  (ch.) 

19.  R  takes  Q 

20.  B  takes  E 


BLACK. 


A. 


1. 

P  to  K's  4th 

2. 

P  takes  P 

3. 

P  to  K  Kt's  4th 

4. 

P  to  K  Kt's  5th 

5. 

P  takes  Kt 

6. 

Q  to  K  B's  3rd 

7. 

Q  takes  P 

S.  K  takes  B 

9. 

Q  takes  P  (ch.) 

10. 

Q  to  K  B's  3rd 

11. 

Q  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

12. 

Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

13. 

K  takes  E 

14. 

K  to  K's  2nd 

15. 

K  to  B's  2nd 

16. 

Q  to  K's  3rd 

17. 

K  to  K's  sq 

IS. 

K  to  Q's  sq 

19. 

P  takes  E 

And  White  won  the  game. 


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MORPHY  S    GAMES    OF   CHESS. 


GAME    LXXII. 

Between  Paul  Morphy  and  Ernest  Morphy. 

EUT   LOPEZ    knight's   GAME. 

WHITE.     Mr.  p.  M,  BLAOK.     Mr.  E.  M. 


1.  P  to  K's  4th 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  K  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

2.  Q  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

8.  K  B  to  Q  Kt's  5th 

8.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

4.  P  to  Q  B's  3rd 

4.  Q  to  K's  2nd 

5.  Castles 

5.  K  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

6.  P  to  Q's  4th 

6.  K  B  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

7.  Q  B  to  K  Kt's  5th 

7.  P  to  K  R's  3rd 

8.  Q  B  takes  K  Kt 

8.  Kt  P  takes  Q  B  (a) 

9.  P  to  Q's  5th 

9.  Kt  to  Q's  sq 

10.  K  Kt  to  K  K's  4th 

10.  P  to  Q  B's  3rd 

11.  K  Kt  to  K  B's  5th 

11.  Q  to  Q  B's  5th 

12.  P  to  Q  Kt's  4th 

12.  Q  to  K  B's  sq 

13.  Q  P  takes  P 

18.  Q  P  takes  P 

14.  K  Kt  to  Q's  6th  (ch.) 

14.  K  to  K's  2nd 

15.  Q  to  Q's  3rd 

15.  B  P  takes  B 

16.  K  Kt  takes  Q  B  (ch.) 

16.  Q  E  takes  Kt 

IT.  K  K  to  Q's  sq 

17.  Q  to  K  Kt's  2nd 

18.  Q  to  Q's  7th  (ch.) 

18.  K  to  K  B's  sq 

19.  Q  takes  Q  E 

And  White  wins. 

(a)  His  best  move. 


GAME     LXXIIl. 

Between  Morphy  and  an  Amateur. 

PETEOFF's    DEFENCE. 
(Remcyve  White's  Queen's  Knight.) 
WHITE.       Mr.  M.  BLACK.       A. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 
8.  P  to  Q's  4th 
4.  P  to  K's  5th 
6.  B  to  K's  2nd 

6.  Castles 

7.  P  takes  P  {en  passant) 

8.  E  to  K's  sq 

9.  Q  B  to  K  Kt's  5th 

10.  Kt  to  K's  5th 

11.  B  to  K  R's  5th 

12.  B  takes  B 

13.  Kt  takes  K  B  P 

14.  B  to  K  Kt's  4th 

15.  Q  takes  P 

16.  E  takes  B  (ch.) 
IT.  Q  E  to  K's  sq 

18.  Q  to  Q  B's  5th  (ch.) 

19.  Q  to  K  B's  5th  (ch.) 

20.  E  takes  Kt  (ch.) 


And 


1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

3.  P  takes  P 

4.  Q  to  K's  2nd 

5.  Kt  to  K's  5th 

6.  P  to  Qs  4th 

7.  Kt  takes  P  at  Q's  6th 

8.  B  to  K's  3rd 

9.  Q  to  Q's  2nd 

10.  Q  to  Q  B's  sq 

11.  B  to  K's  2nd  , 

12.  K  takes  B  / 

13.  Kt  takes  Kt 

14.  Kt  to  Q's  sq 

15.  E  to  K  Kt's  sq 

16.  Kt  takes  E 

17.  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

18.  K  to  K  B's  3rd 

19.  K  to  K's  2nd 

20.  K  to  Q's  sq 
White  wins. 


morphy's  games  of  chess. 


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GAME   LXXIV. 

Between  Morphy  and  Barnes. 
philidoe's  defence. 


WHITE.    Mr.  B. 

P  to  K's  4th 
Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 
P  to  Q's  4th 
Q  P  takes  K  P 
Kt  to  K  Kt's  5th 
P  to  K's  6th 
Kt  to  K  B's  7th 
Q  B  to  K's  3rd 
B  to  K  Kt's  5th 
Kt  takes  R 
K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 
Kt  to  K  B's  7th 
R  to  K  B's  sq 
P  to  K  B's  3rd 
Kt  to  Q  R's  3rd 
B  takes  B 
Q  takes  Kt  (c) 
Castles 

B  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 
K  to  Kt's  sq 
Kt  to  K's  5th 
Kt  to  Q's  3rd 
Kt  takes  B 


And  White  resi 


BLACK.    Mr.  M. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  P  to  Q's  3rd 

3.  P  to  K  B's  4th 

4.  K  B  P  takes  P 

5.  P  to  Q's  4th 

6.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th  (a) 

7.  Q  to  K  B's  3rd 

8.  P  to  Q's  5th 

9.  Q  to  K  B's  4th 

10.  Q  takes  B 

11.  Q  Kt  to  B's  8rd 

12.  Q  takes  KKtP 

13.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

14.  Q  Kt  to  Q  Kfs  5th 

15.  Q  B  takes  P  (&) 

16.  Kt  to  Q's  6th  (cb.) 
IT.  P  takes  Q 

18.  K  B  takes  Kt 

19.  P  to  Q's  7th  (ch.) 

20.  B  to  B's  4th 

21.  K  to  B's  sq 

22.  R  to  K's  sq 

23.  Q  takes  R  {d) 
gns. 


(a)  This  move  appears  in  none  of  the  books;  all  the  authors  regard 
K  Kt  to  R's  3rd  as  Black's  only  move. 
(5)  To  prepare  the  way  for  16.  Kt  to  Q's  6th  (ch.) 

(c)  Forced,  for  if  IT.  P  takes  Kt,  Black  mates  in  two  moves. 

(d)  Even  the  tyro  will  see  that  White  cannot  capture  the  Queen. 


GAME    LXXV. 

Between  Morphy  and  Boden. 


SCOTCH  GAMBIT. 


WHITE.    Mr.  M. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

3.  P  to  Q's  4th 

4.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

5.  Castles 

6.  P  to  Q  B's  3rd 

7.  P  takes  P 

8.  Q  Kt  to  B's  3rd 

9.  P  to  Q's  5th 

10.  B  to  Q"s  3rd 

11.  Q  B  to  K  Kt's  5th 

12.  B  to  K  R's  4th 


BLACK.     Mr.  B. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 
8.  P  takes  P 

4.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

5.  P  to  Q's  3rd 

6.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd  (a) 

7.  B  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

8.  Castles 

9.  Kt  to  Q  R's  4th 

10.  P  to  Q  B's  4th 

11.  P  to  K  R's  3rd 

12.  Q  B  to  K  Kt'fl  6th 


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morphy's  games  op  chess. 


13.  P  to  K  E's  8rd 

13.  BtoKE's4th 

14.  PtoKKrs4th 

14.  B  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

15.  Q  to  Q's  2nd 

15.  R  to  K's  sq 

16.  Q  R  to  K's  sq 

16.  B  to  Q  B's  2nd 

17.  KttoQKt'soth 

17.  K  to  E's  2nd 

18.  B  takes  Kt 

18.  Kt  P  takes  B 

19.  Kt  takes  B 

19.  Q  takes  Kt 

20.  Q  to  Q  B's  3rd 

20.  Q  to  Q's  sq 

21.  KttoKE's4th 

21.  P  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

22.  P  to  K  B's  4th 

22.  K  to  Kt's  2ud 

23.  Kt  takes  B 

23.  P  takes  Kt 

24.  P  to  K's  5th 

24.  Q  R  to  B's  sq 

25.  B  to  Q  Kt's  sq 

25.  K  to  B's  2nd 

26.  P  to  K's  6th  (ch.) 

26.  K  to  Kt's  2nd 

27.  Q  to  Q's  8rd 

27.  P  to  K  B's  4th 

28.  P  takes  K  B  P 

28.  Q  to  K  B's  3rd 

29.  P  takes  K  Kt  P 

29.  Q  takes  QKtP 

30.  P  to  K  B's  5th 

30.  Q  to  K  B's  3rd 

31.  P  to  K's  7th 

31.  P  to  Q  B's  5th 

82.  Q  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

32.  P  to  Q  B's  6th 

83.  K  to  K's  6th 

33.  Q  to  Q's  5th  (ch.) 

84.  Q  to  K  B's  2nd 

34.  Q  takes  Q  P 

85.  P  to  K  B's  6th  (ch.) 

And  Black  resigns. 

(a)  This  is  now  the  nsual  defence  to  the  Scotch  Gambit.    The  present 

position  occui-s  in  the  Giuoco  Piano,  where  it  is  brought  about  as  follows : 

1.  P  to  K's  4th  1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  K  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd  2.  Q  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

3.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th  3.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

4.  P  to  Q  B's  3rd  4.  K  Kt  to  B's  3rd 

5.  P  to  Q's  4th  5.  P  takes  P 


GAME    LXXVI. 

Between  Morphy  and  Elkin. 


ALLG-AIEK   GAMBIT. 


a.    4. 


WHITE.    Mr.  E. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  P  to  K  B's  4th 

3.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 
P  to  K  E's  4th 

5.  Kt  to  K's  5th 

6.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

7.  P  takes  P 

8.  P  to  Q's  4th 

9.  Q  to  Q's  2nd 

10.  K  to  Q's  sq 

11.  Q  to  K's  sq 

12.  Kt  to  Q's  3rd 

13.  Q  to  Q  B's  3rd 

14.  Q  Kt  to  Q's  2nd 

15.  Kt  to  K  B's  ;3rd 

16.  B  to  Q  Kt's  5th 

17.  B  takes  Kt 

18.  B  to  Q's  2nd 


BLACK.     Mr.  M. 

1. 

P  to  K's  4th 

2. 

P  takes  P 

8. 

P  to  K  Kt's  4th 

4 

P  to  K  Kt's  5th 

5. 

Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

6. 

P  to  Q's  4th 

7. 

K  B  to  Q's  3rd 

8. 

Kt  to  K  E's  4th 

9. 

Q  to  K's  2nd 

10. 

Castles 

11. 

E  to  K's  sq 

12. 

Q  to  Q's  sq 

13. 

P  to  K  Kt's  6th 

14  Q  B  to  K  Kt's  5th  (ch.) 

15. 

Q  Kt  to  Q's  2nd 

16. 

E  to  K's  2nd 

17. 

Q  takes  B 

IS. 

Q  E  to  K'b  sq 

MOEPHYS    GAMES    OF    CHESS. 


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19.  E  to  K's  sq 

20.  P  takes  B 

21.  Kt  to  K's  5th 

22.  B  takes  B  P 

23.  Q  to  K's  3rd 
24  P  takes  B 
25.  Q  takes  Kt 


19.  B  takes  Kt  (ch.) 

20.  Q  to  K  R's  6th 

21.  P  to  K  Kt's  7th 

22.  Kt  takes  B 

23.  B  takes  Kt 

24.  E  takes  P 

25.  E  takes  P  (ch.) 
And  "White  resigns. 


GAME    LXXVII. 

Between  Morphy  and  Kipping. 

EVANS'   GAMBIT. 


"WHITE.    Mr.  M. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2,  K  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 
8.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

4.  P  to  Q  Kt's  4th 

5.  P  to  Q  B"s  3rd 

6.  P  to  Q's  4th 

7.  Castles 

8.  Q  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

9.  P  to  K's  5th 

10.  E  to  K's  sq 

11.  B  to  K  Kt's  5th 

12.  Kt  takes  KP 

13.  P  to  K  B's  4th 

14.  K  to  R's  sq 

15.  Q  Kt  takes  P 

16.  Q  E  to  Q's  sq 

17.  Q  takes  Kt 

18.  Q  takes  K  B 

19.  Kt  to  K's  4th 

20.  Kt  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

21.  Q  takes  Q(ch.) 

22.  E  takes  B 

23.  P  takes  P 

24.  P  to  K  R's  4th 

25.  E  to  K's  5th 

26.  Kt  to  K's  4th 

27.  Kt  takes  P  (ch.) 

28.  E  to  K's  6th  (ch.) 

29.  E  to  Q's  5th  (ch.) 
80.  E  to  K's  4th  (ch.) 

And  "White 


BLACK.     Mr.  K. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  Q  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

3.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

4.  B  takes  Kt  P 

5.  B  to  Q  E's  4th 

6.  P  takes  P 

7.  P  to  Q's  3rd 

8.  Q  to  K  B's  3rd 

9.  P  takes  K  P 

10.  B  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

11.  Q  to  K  B's  4th 

12.  Kt  takes  Kt 

13.  P  takes  Q  B  P  (ch.) 

14.  B  to  Q's  5th 

15.  K  to  B's  sq 

16.  Kt  takes  B 

17.  Q  B  to  K's  3rd 

18.  P  to  K  B's  3rd 

19.  P  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

20.  Q  to  Q  B's  4th 

21.  P  takes  Q 

22.  P  takes  B 

23.  P  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

24.  K  to  B's  2nd 

25.  P  to  K  E's  3rd 

26.  P  takes  P 

27.  K  to  B's  3rd 

28.  K  to  B's  4th 

29.  K  to  Kt's  5th 


mates  in  two  moves. 


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MORPHY*S   GAMES    OF   CHESS. 


GAME    LXXVIII. 

Between  Morphy  and  Kipping. 

EVA3SS*  GAMBIT. 


WHITE.    Mr.  X. 

BLACK.     Mr.  M. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  K  Kt  to  B'8  3rd 

2.  QKttoB'sSrd 

8.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

3.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

4.  P  to  Q  Kt's  4th 

4.  B  takes  Kt  P 

5.  P  to  Q  B's  3rd 

5.  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

6.  P  to  Q's  4th 

6.  P  takes  P 

7.  P  takes  P 

7.  B  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

8.  P  to  Q's  5th 

8.  Kt  to  Q  E's  4th 

9.  B  to  Q's  8rd 

9.  P  to  Q's  Srd 

10.  B  to  Q  Kt's  2nd 

10.  Kt  to  K  B's  Srd 

11.  F  to  K  E'fl  Srd 

11.  Castles 

12.  Castles 

12.  Kt  to  K  E's  4th 

13.  Q  to  Q's  2nd 

13.  P  to  K  B's  4th 

14.  Kt  to  Q  E's  Srd 

14.  Kt  to  K  Kt's  6th 

15.  K  R  to  K's  sq 

15.  P  takes  P 

16.  KB  takes P 

16.  B  to  K  B's  4th 

IT.  B  takes  B 

17.  Kt  takes  B 

18.  E  to  K's  4th 

18.  Q  to  Q's  2nd 

19.  B  to  Q  B's  Srd 

19.  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

20.  Kt  to  Q  B's  2nd 

20.  P  to  Q  Kt's  Srd 

21.  Q  to  K  Kt's  5th 

21.  Q  E  to  K's  sq 

22.  Q  E  to  K's  sq 

22.  E  takes  E 

23.  E  takes  E 

23.  P  to  K  E's  Srd 

24  Q  to  K  Kt's  4th 

24.  E  to  K  B's  2nd 

25.  E  to  K's  6th 

25.  P  to  Q  B's  Srd 

26.  Q  Kt  to  Q's  4th 

26.  P  takes  P 

27.  Q  to  K  Kt's  6th 

27.  K  Kt  to  K's  2nd 

28.  Q  to  K  Kt's  Srd 

28.  Q  Kt  to  B's  Srd 

29.  Kt  takes  Kt 

29.  Q  takes  E 

80.  Kt  to  Q's  8th 

80.  P  to  K  Kt's  Srd 

And  Black  vrins. 

GAME    LXXIX. 

Between  Morphy  and  Medley. 

ALLGAIER  GAMBIT. 


WHITE,    Mr.  Morphy. 

1.  P  to  K'fl  4th 

2.  P  to  K  B's  4th 

3.  Kt  to  K  B's  Srd 

4.  P  to  K  E's  4th 

5.  Kt  to  K's  5th 

6.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

7.  P  takes  P 

8.  P  to  Q's  4th 

9.  Kt  to  Q  B's  Srd 
10.  Kt  to  K's  2nd 


BLACK.    Mr.  Medley. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  P  takes  P 

3.  P  to  K  Kt's  4th 

4.  P  to  K  Kt's  5th 

5.  Kt  to  K  B's  Srd 

6.  P  to  Q's  4th 

7.  B  to  Q's  Srd 

8.  Kt  to  K  E's  4th 

9.  B  to  K  B's  4th 
10.  P  to  K  B's  Srd 


morphy's  games  of  chess. 


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11.  Q  Kt  takes  P 

12.  Kt  to  K  E's  5th 
18,  Q  B  to  K  Kt's  5th 

14.  P  to  Q  B's  3rd 

15.  Castles 

16.  E  takes  B 

17.  Q  takes  KtP 

18.  R  to  K's  sq 

19.  Q  to  K  B's  3rd 

20.  B  to  Q  Kt's  5th  (ch.) 

21.  P  takes  P 

22.  Kt  takes  Q  B  P 

23.  B  takes  Kt  (ch.) 

24.  B  takes  Kt  (ch.) 

25.  E  takes  Q 

26.  B  takes  E 


11.  Kt  to  K  Kt's  6th 

12.  Kt  takes  Kt 

13.  B  to  Q  Kt's  5th  (ch.) 

14.  Q  to  Q's  3rd 

15.  Kt  to  K  Kt's  2nd 

16.  Kt  takes  E 

17.  Kt  to  K's  2nd 
IS.  P  to  K  E's  4th 

19.  E  to  K  E's  2nd 

20.  P  to  Q  B's  3rd 

21.  P  takes  P 

22.  QKt  takes  Kt 

23.  K  to  B's  sq 

24.  Q  takes  B 

25.  B  takes  R 


And  "White  wins. 


GAME     LXXX. 

Between  Morphy  and  Boden. 
king's  gambit  evaded. 


WHITE.     Mr.  M. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  P  to  K  B's  4th 

3.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

4.  P  to  Q  B's  3rd 

5.  K  B  to  K's  2nd 

6.  P  to  Q  Kt's  4th 

7.  P  to  Q  Kt's  5th 

8.  P  to  Q's  4th 

9.  B  takes  B 

10.  P  takes  P 

11.  Q  B  to  K's  3rd 

12.  Q  B  to  K  B's  2nd 

13.  Castles 

14  Q  to  Q's  3rd 

15.  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

16.  P  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

17.  K  to  Kt's  2nd 

18.  Q  E  to  K's  sq 

19.  B  to  K's  3rd 

20.  Kt  to  K's  2nd 

21.  B  to  Q's  2nd 

22.  Kt  to  K  B's  4th 

23.  P  to  K's  5th 

24.  Kt  takes  Q 

25.  B  to  Q  Kt's  4th 

26.  B  takes  E 

27.  Kt  to  K  B's  4th 

28.  B  takes  Q  P 

29.  B  takes  Kt 

80.  B  to  Q'8  5tli 

81.  PtoK's6t^ 


BLACK.     Mr.  B, 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

3.  P  to  Q's  3rd 

4.  Q  B  to  K  Kt's  5th 

5.  Q  Kt  to  B's  3rd 

6.  B  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

7.  Kt  to  Q  E's  4th 

8.  B  takes  Kt 

9.  P  takes  Q  P 

10.  Q  to  K  B's  3rd 

11.  Kt  to  Q  B's  5th 

12.  Q  takes  K  B  P 

13.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

14.  Kt  to  Q  E's  4th 

15.  Castles  (K  E) 

16.  Qto  K  E's  3rd 

17.  Q  R  to  K's  sq 

18.  K  to  E's  sq 

19.  Q  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

20.  P  to  K  E's  3rd 

21.  P  to  Q's  4th 

22.  Q  to  K  E's  2nd 

23.  Q  takes  Q 

24.  Kt  to  Q  B's  5th 

25.  Kt  to  K's  5th 

26.  E  takes  B 

27.  K  Kt  to  Q'a  7th 

28.  Kt  takes  E 

29.  Kt  to  Q's  7th 
80.  B  takes  Q  P 
31.  P  to  K  Kt's  4th 


m 


morphy's  games  of  chess. 


82.  P  to  K's  7th 

83.  B  takes  K  B  P 

84.  P  takes  P 
35.  K  takes  E 


82.  R  to  K's  sq 
33.  P  takes  Kt 
84.  E  takes  P 


And  White  wins. 


GAME     LXXXI. 

Between  Morphy  and  Bird. 


PHILIDOE'S   DEFENCE. 


WHITE.    Mr.  B. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 
8.  P  to  Q's  4th 

4.  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

5.  Q  Kt  takes  P 

6.  Kt  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

7.  Kt  to  K's  5  th 

8.  Q  B  to  K  Kt's  5th 

9.  Kt  to  K  R's  5th 

10.  Q  to  Q's  2nd 

11.  P  to  K  Kt's  4th 

12.  Kt  takes  Kt 

13.  Kt  to  K"s  5th 
14  B  to  K's  2nd 

15.  Kt  takes  Kt 

16.  B  to  K's  3rd 

17.  Castles  (QE) 

18.  B  takes  R 

19.  P  to  Q  B's  3rd 

20.  P  to  Q  Kt's  4th 

21.  K  to  B's  2nd 

22.  K  to  Kt's  2nd 

23.  P  takes  B 
24  Q  takes  R 

25.  K  to  B's  2nd 

26.  B  takes  P 

27.  E  to  Q's  3rd 

28.  K  to  Q's  2nd 

29.  K  to  Q's  sq 


BLACK.     Mr.  M. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  P  to  Q's  3rd 

8.  P  to  K  B's  4th 
4  K  B  P  takes  P 

5.  P  to  Q's  4th 

6.  P  to  K's  5th 

7.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

8.  B  to  Q's  3rd 

9.  Castles 

10.  Q  to  K's  sq 

11.  Kt  takes  K  Kt  P 

12.  Q  takes  Kt 

18.  Kt  to  Q  B's  Srd 

14.  Q  to  K  R's  6th 

15.  P  takes  Kt 

16.  E  to  Q  Kt's  sq 

17.  R  takes  K  B  P 

18.  Q  to  Q  B's  6th 

19.  Q  takes  Q  E  P 

20.  Q  to  Q  E's  8th  (ch.) 

21.  Q  to  R's  5th  (ch.) 

22.  B  takes  Q  Kt's  P 

23.  E  takes  P  (ch.) 

24.  Q  takes  Q  (ch.) 

25.  P  to  K's  6th 

26.  B  to  K  B's  4th  (ch.) 

27.  Q  to  Q  B's  5th  (ch.) 

28.  Q  to  Q  E's  7th  (ch.) 

29.  Q  to  Kt's  8th  (ch.) 


And  White  resigns. 


GAME    LXXXII. 

Between  Morphy  and  Bird. 

EVANS'   GAMBIT. 


WHITE. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 
8.  B  to  Q  B's  4th 
4.  P  to  Q  Kt's  4th 


Mr.  M. 


BLACK.     Mr.  B. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  Kt  to  Q  B's  Srd 

3.  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

4.  B  takes  Q  Kt  P 


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97 


5.  P  to  Q  B's  3rd 

6.  P  to  Q's  4th 
T.  P takes? 

8.  Castles 

9.  P  to  Q's  5th 

10.  P  to  K's  5th 

11.  Q  to  E's  4th  (ch.) 

12.  Q  takes  Kt 

13.  Kt  takes  P 
14  Kt  takes  B 

15.  Q  to  K  Kt's  4th  (ch.) 

16.  B  to  K  Kt's  5th 
IT.  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

18.  Q  R  to  K's  sq  (ch.) 

19.  Q  to  Q  Kt's  4th  (ch.) 

20.  B  takes  Kt 

21.  Kt  to  K"s  4th 

22.  K  to  E's  sq 
28.  P  to  K  B's  4th 
24  P  to  K  B-s  5th 

25.  E  to  K  B's  4th 

26.  Kt  takes  P  (ch.) 

27.  E  to  K  Kt's  4th  (ch.) 

28.  Q  takes  Q  (ch.) 

29.  E  to  K's  6th 

30.  QtoKB's4th 
81.  E  to  K'a  7th  (ch.) 


5.  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

6.  P  takes  P 

7.  B  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

8.  P  to  Q's  3rd 

9.  Kt  to  Q  E's  4th 

10.  Kt  takes  B 

11.  B  to  Q's  2ad 

12.  P  takes  P 

13.  Q  to  K  B's  3rd 
14  K  takes  Kt 

15.  K  to  K's  sq 

16.  Q  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

17.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

18.  K  to  B's  sq 

19.  K  to  Kt's  sq 

20.  Q  takes  B 

21.  Q  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

22.  P  to  K  E's  4th 

23.  P  to  E's  5th 
24  Q  to  E's  4th 

25.  P  to  K  B's  3rd 

26.  P  takes  Kt 

27.  Q  takes  E 

28.  KtoB'ssq 

29.  E  to  K  E's  3rd 
80.  K  to  Kt's  2nd 


And  White  wins. 


GAME    LXXXIII. 

Between  Morphy  and  Barnes. 
knight's  defence  in  king's  bishop's  opening. 


WHITE.     Mr.  M. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  B  to  Q  B's  4th 
8.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 
4  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

5.  Q  P  takes  Kt 

6.  Castles 

7.  Kt  to  K  E's  4th 

8.  Kt  to  K  B's  5th 

9.  B  to  Q  Kt's  8rd 

10.  B  to  K's  3rd 

11.  Kt  to  K  E's  4th 

12.  QtoKE's5th(ch.) 

13.  Kt  takes  K  Kt  P 
14  Q  to  K  E's  4th 

15.  Q  takes  K  B  P 

16.  Q  E  to  Q's  sq 

17.  Q  to  K's  6th 

18.  Q  to  K  E's  3rd 

19.  P  to  K  B's  4th 

20.  E  takes  Q  P 

21.  QtoKE's5th(ch.) 


BLACK.      Mr.  B. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 
8.  Kt  takes  K  P 
4  Kt  takes  Kt 

5.  P  to  K  B's  3rd 

6.  Kt  to  Q  B's  8rd 

7.  Q  to  K's  2nd 

8.  Q  to  Q  B's  4th 

9.  P  to  Q's  4th 

10.  Q  to  Q  E's  4th 

11.  Q  B  to  K's  3rd 

12.  P  to  K  Kt's  8rd 

13.  B  to  K  B's  2nd 
14  Q  B  takes  Kt 

15.  E  to  K  Kt's  sq 

16.  B  to  K's  2nd 

17.  B  to  K  B's  2nd 

18.  Kt  to  Q's  sq 

19.  P  to  K's  5th 

20.  B  takes  E 

21.  K  to  B's  sq 


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MORPHY  S    GAMES    OP    CHESS. 


22.  B  takes  B 

22.  E  to  K  Kt's  2nd 

23.  P  to  Q  Kt's  4th 

23.  Q  to  Q  R's  8rd 

24.  P  to  K  B's  5th 

24.  Kt  to  K  B's  2nd 

25.  P  to  K  B's  6th 

25.  B  takes  P 

26.  P  to  Q  Kt's  5th 

26.  Q  to  Q's  3rd 

2T.  B  takes  Kt 

27.  P  to  Q  Kt"s  3rd 

28.  B  to  K  E's  6th 

28.  K  to  K's  2nd 

29.  B  takes  R 

29.  B  takes  B 

50.  B  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

80.  R  to  K  B's  sq 

31.  B  to  K  B's  Tth  (ch.) 

81.  R  takes  R 

32.  Q  takes  R  (ch.) 

82.  K  to  Q's  sq 

S3.  Q  takes  B 

83.  Q  to  Q's  Sth  (ch.) 

84.  K  to  B's  2nd 

84  Q  to  Q's  7th  (ch.) 

85.  K  to  Kt's  3id 

85.  P  to  K's  6th 

86.  Q  to  K  B's  6th  (ch.) 

36.  K  to  Q  B's  sq 

87.  B  to  K'8  6th  (ch.) 

And  Black  resigns. 

GAME    LXXXIV. 

Between  Morphj  and  Lichtenhein. 

SCOTCH   GAMBIT. 

WHITE.    Mr.  L.  BLACK.     Mr.  M. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  Q  Kt  to  B's  3rd 
8.  P  takes  P 

4.  K  Kt  to  B's  3rd 

5.  P  to  Q's  4th 

6.  K  Kt  to  K's  5th 

7.  Q  B  to  Q's  2nd 

8.  P  takes  Kt 

9.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

10.  Q  to  K  K's  5th 

11.  P  takes  B 

12.  Q  B  to  K  Kt's  5th 

13.  K  B  takes  Q  B 

14.  Q  to  Q's  sq 

15.  Q  to  Q"s  Sth  (ch.) 

16.  Q  to  K  B's  6th  (ch.) 

17.  B  to  K  R's  6th 

18.  K  to  K  B's  sq 


1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  K  Kt  to  B's  3rd 

3.  P  to  Q's  4th 

4.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

5.  P  to  K's  5th 

6.  B  to  Q  Kt's  5th 

7.  Kt  takes  P 

8.  Kt  takes  Q  Kt 

9.  K  B  to  Q's  3rd 

10.  B  takes  Kt 

11.  Q  to  K's  2iid 

12.  Q  B  to  K's  8rd 

13.  Q  to  Q  B's  4th 
14  P  to  K  Kt's  3rd  (a) 

15.  P  takes  B 

16.  K  to  K  B's  2nd 
1  17.  K  to  K  Kt's  sq 
^  18.  Q  takes  Q  B  P  (ch.) 


And  White  resigns. 

(a)  If  Q  takes  Q  B  P  (ch.),  Black  would  play  K  to  B's  sq.  and,  upon 
White  capturing  the  Queen's  Rook,  would  play  K  to  K's  2nd,  and  win. 


morphy's  games  of  chess. 


99 


GAME    LXXXV. 

Mr.  Panl  Morphy  gives  an  Amateur  of  New  Orleans 
the  Queen's  Rook. 

TWO   KNI&HTS'   DEFENCE. 
(Bemove  White's  Queen'a  Book.) 


WHITE.    Mr.  M. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  K  Kt  to  B's  3rd 
8.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

4.  K  Kt  to  Kt's  5th 

5.  K  P  takes  P 

6.  K  Kt  takes  B  P 

7.  Q  to  K  B's  3rd  (ch.) 

8.  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

9.  K  B  takes  K  Kt  (ch.) 

10.  Q  to  K  B's  7th  (a) 

11.  B  takes  B 

12.  Kt  to  K's  4th  (ch.) 

13.  P  to  Q  B's  4th  (ch.) 
14  Q  takes  Kt 

15.  Q  to  K  Kt's  4th  (ch.) 

16.  Q  to  K's  2nd  (ch.) 

17.  P  to  Q's  3rd  (ch.) 

18.  Castles  (checkmate) 

(o)  Threatening  mate  next  move. 


BLACK.      A. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  Q  Kt  to  B's  3rd 

3.  K  Kt  to  B's  3rd 

4.  P  to  Q's  4th 

5.  K  Kt  takes  P 

6.  K  takes  Kt 

7.  K  to  K's  3rd 

8.  Q  Kt  to  Q's  5th 

9.  K  to  Q's  3rd 

10.  Q  B  to  K's  3rd 

11.  Kt  takes  Kt 

12.  K  to  Q's  4th 

13.  K  takes  Kt 
14  Q  to  Q's  5th 

15.  K  to  Q's  6th 

16.  K  to  B's  7th 

17.  K  takes  B 


+ 


GAME    LXXXVI. 

Between  Morphy  and  Boden. 


EVANS'   GAMBIT. 


WHITE.    Mr.  M. 

1.  P  to  K'8  4th 

2.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 
8.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 
4  P  to  Q  Kt's  4th 

5.  P  to  Q  B's  3rd 

6.  P  to  Q's  4th 

7.  P  takes  P 

8.  Castles 

9.  P  to  Q's  5th 

10.  P  to  K's  5th 

11.  Q  to  Q  E's  4th  (ch.) 

12.  Q  lakes  Kt 

13.  Kt  takes  P 
14  Kt  takes  B 

15.  Q  to  K  Kt's  4th  (ch.) 

16.  Q  B  to  K  Kt's  5th 

17.  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

18.  Q  R  to  K's  sq  (ch.) 


BLACK.      Mr.  B. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

3.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 
4  B  takes  Kt  P 

5.  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

6.  P  takes  P 

7.  B  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

8.  P  to  Q's  3rd 

9.  KttoQR's4th 

10.  Kt  takes  B 

11.  B  to  Q's  2nd 

12.  P  takes  P 

13.  Q  to  K  B's  3rd 
14  K  takes  Kt 

15.  K  to  K's  sq 

16.  Q  to  K  Kt's  3rd  (a) 

17.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

18.  K  to  B's  sq 


100 


MORPHY  S  GAMES  OF  CHESS. 


19. 
20. 
21. 
22. 
23. 
24 
25. 
26. 
27. 
28. 
29. 
80. 
81. 

^^'') 
Kook 


Q  to  Q  Kt's  4tli  (ch.) 
B  takes  Kt 
Kt  to  K's  4th 
K  to  K's  sq 
P  to  K  B's  4th 
P  to  K  B's  5th 
E  to  K  B's  4th 
Kt  takes  P  (ch.) 
R  to  K  Kt's  4th  (ch.) 
Q  takes  Q  (ch.) 
E  to  K's  6th 
Q  to  K  B's  4th 
E  to  K's  7th  (ch.) 


19.  K  to  Kt's  sq 

20.  Q  takes  B 

21.  Q  to  K  Kt's  8rd 

22.  P  to  K  R's  4th 

23.  P  to  K  R's  5th 

24.  Q  to  K  R's  4th 

25.  P  to  K  B's  3rd 

26.  P  takes  Kt 

27.  Q  takes  R 

28.  K  to  B's  sq 

29.  E  to  K  E's  3rd 
80.  K  to  Kt's  2nd 


And  "White  wins. 


Mr.  Lowenthal  correctly  states  that  if  Black  had  ventured  to  take  the 
he  would  have  been  mated  in  eight  moves,  thus : 


24. 


R  to  K's  sq  (ch.) 
R  takes  Kt  (ch.) 
R  takes  P  (ch.) 
Q  to  K's  6th  (ch.) 
B  to  K's  7th  (ch.) 
B  to  B's  6th  (ch.) 
Q  to  K's  7th  (ch.) 
Q  Mates. 


16.  Q  takes  E 

17.  Kt  to  K's  2nd  (best) 

18.  K  to  B's  sq 

19.  K  takes  R 
K  to  B's  sq 
K  to  K's  sq 
K  to  B's  sq 
K  moves 


21 


GAME    LXXXVII. 

Between  Morpliy  and  Boden. 


SCOTCH  GAMBIT. 


WHITE.    Mr.  M, 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  K  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

3.  P  to  Q's  4th 

4.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

5.  Castles 

6.  P  to  Q  B's  3rd 

7.  P  takes  P 

8.  Q  Kt  to  Q  B's  8rd 

9.  P  to  Q's  5th 

10.  K  B  to  Q's  8rd 

11.  Q  B  to  K  Kt's  5th 

12.  Q  B  to  K  K's  4th 
18.  P  to  K  E's  3rd 

14.  P  to  K  Kt's  4th 

15.  Q  to  Q's  2nd 

16.  Q  E  to  K's  sq 

17.  Q  Kt  to  Q  Kt's  5th 

18.  Q  B  takes  Kt 

19.  Q  Kt  takes  B 

20.  Q  to  Q  B's  3rd 

21.  Kt  to  K  K's  4th 

22.  P  to  K  B's  4th 
28.  Kt  takes  B 


BLACK.     Mr.  B. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  Q  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

3.  P  takes  P 

4.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

5.  P  to  Q's  3rd 

6.  K  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

7.  K  B  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

8.  Castles 

9.  Kt  to  Q  R's  4th 

10.  P  to  Q  B's  4th 

11.  P  to  K  K's  3rd 

12.  Q  B  to  K  Kt's  5th 

13.  Q  B  to  K  K's  4th 

14.  Q  B  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

15.  K  R  to  K's  sq 

16.  K  B  to  Q  B's  2nd 

17.  K  to  R's  2nd 

18.  P  takes  B 

19.  Q  takes  Kt 

20.  Q  to  Q's  sq 

21.  P  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

22.  K  to  Kt's  2nd 

23.  P  takes  Kt 


MORPHYS    GAMES    OF    CHESS. 


101 


24.  P  to  K's  5th 

24.  Q  E  to  Q  B's  sq 

25.  B  to  Q  Kt's  sq 

25,  K  to  K  B's  2nd 

26.  P  to  K's  6th  (ch.) 

26.  K  to  Kt's  2nd 

27.  QtoQ'sSrd 

27.  P  to  K  B's  4th 

28.  P  takes  K  B  P 

28.  Q  to  K  B's  3rd 

29.  P  takes  KKtP 

29.  Q  takes  QKtP 

30.  P  to  K  B's  5th 

30.  Q  to  K  B's  3rd 

81.  P  to  K's  7th 

81.  P  to  Q  B's  5th 

82.  Q  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

82.  P  to  Q  B's  6th 

83.  Q  E  to  K's  6th 

83.  Q  to  Q's  5th  (ch.) 

84.  Q  to  K  B's  2nd 

84.  Q  takes  Q  P 

85.  P  to  K  B's  6th  (ch.) 

And  Black  struck  his  colors. 

GAME 

LXXXVIII. 

Mr.  Morphy  plays  the  following  eight  games  simultane- 
ously without  sight  of  men  or  hoards.  These  games  were 
played  at  the  Birmingham  Chess  Meeting  in  1858. 

First  Board — Lord  Ltttleton. 


ALLGAIER   GAMBIT. 


WHITE,  (a)    Mr.  M. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  P  to  K  B's  4th 

8,  K  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

4.  P  to  K  R's  4th 

5.  Kt  to  K's  5th 

6.  Kt  takes  KKtP 

7.  P  to  Q's  4th 
S.  K  Kt  to  K  B's  2nd 

9.  K  takes  B 

10.  Q  Kt  to  Q  B'8  8rd 

11.  Q  B  takes  P 

12.  Kt  takes  Kt 

13.  K  B  to  Q  Kt's  5th  (ch.) 

14.  Q  B  to  K  E's  6th  (ch.) 

15.  K  E  to  K  E's  5th  (c) 

16.  Q  to  Q's  2nd 

17.  Q  E  to  K's  sq 

And  Black  resigned 


BLACK.    Lord.  L. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  P  takes  P 

3.  P  to  K  Kt's  4th 
4  P  to  K  Kt's  5th 

5.  P  to  Q's  3rd 

6.  K  B  to  K's  2nd 

7.  B  takes  K  E  P  (ch.) 

8.  B  takes  Kt  (ch.) 

9.  K  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

10.  Q  to  K's  2nd 

11.  Kt  takes  P  (ch.) 

12.  Q  takes  Kt 

13.  K  to  B's  sq  (&) 

14.  K  to  Kfs  sq 

15.  B  to  K  B's  4th 

16.  B  to  K  Kt's  3rd 


(a)  To  say  the  White  men  -were  played  by  Mr.  Morphy  means  no  more 
than  that,  as  his  opponent  used  the  dark  ones,  it  was  presumed  he  mentally 
adopted  the  opposite  color. 

(&)  To  avoid  the  threatened  loss  of  his  Queen  by  K  E  to  K's  sq,  &c 

(c)  Very  prettily  played. 


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MORPHY  S  GAMES  OF  CHESS. 


GAME    LXXXIX. 

Second  Board — The  Rev.  George  Salmoi^. 


EVANS'   GAMBIT. 


WHITE.    Mr.  M. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  K  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

3.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 
4  P  to  Q  Kt's  4th 

5.  P  takes  Q  P 

6.  Castles 

7.  Kt  takes  K  P 

8.  P  to  Q's  4th 

'9.  Q  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

10.  K  B  to  Q  Kt's  8rd  (a) 

11.  P  to  Q  E's  3rcl 

12.  Q  Kt  takes  Q  K  P 

13.  P  to  Q  B's  4th 

14.  P  takes  Kt  (6) 
J5.  Q  to  K  B's  3rd 

16.  K  R  to  K's  sq 

17.  K  R  to  K's  2nd 

18.  Q  B  to  Q  Kt's  2nd 

19.  P  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

20.  Kt  takes  B 

21.  K  R  to  K's  5th 

22.  P  to  Q's  6th 

23.  K  R  takes  R 

24.  Q  to  Q's  5th 


BLAOK.     Mr.  S. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  Q  Kt  to  K  B's  8rd 

3.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th  . 

4.  P  to  Q's  4th 

5.  Kt  takes  t^KtP 

6.  K  Kt  to  K's  2nd 

7.  Castles 

8.  K  B  to  Q's  3rd 

9.  Q  B  to  K  B's  4th 

10.  P  to  Q  R's  4th 

11.  P  to  Q  R's  5th 

12.  Q  Kt  takes  Q  P 

13.  Q  R  takes  Kt 

14.  QRtoQR's4th 

15.  Q  B  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

16.  K  B  to  Q  Kt's  5th 

17.  Kt  to  K  B's  4th 

18.  Q  to  Q  R's  sq 

19.  Q  to  Q  R's  2nd 

20.  K  R  P  takes  Kt 

21.  B  takes  Q  R  P  (c) 

22.  B  to  Q  Kt's  6th 

23.  B  takes  R 

24.  P  to  Q  Kt's  8rd  (d) 


(a)  In  these  games  Mr.  Morphy  overlooks  nothing;  the  moment  an  ene- 
my makes  an  attack  the  correct  defence  follows,  as  if  every  thing  had  been 
foreseen  and  provided  for. 

(&)  He  plainly  saw  that  by  taking  the  Rook  he  wonld  be  subjected  to  loss 
by  14.  Kt  to  Q  B's  6th ;  15.  Kt  to  K's  7th  (ch.) ;  and  16.  Kt  takes  Q  P,  &c. 

(c)  Better  to  have  taken  the  Q's  Pawn  with  Kt. 

(d)  From  this  point,  owing  to  an  error  on  the  part  of  the  transcriber,  the 
record  of  the  game  is  no  longer  intelligible,  which  is  to  be  regretted,  as, 
upon  the  whole,  it  was  perhaps  the  best  contested  jmrtie  of  the  series,  and 
excited  more  interest  than  any  other.  It  was  carried  on  after  this  for  above 
twenty  moves  on  each  side,  and  was  finally  won,  amidst  general  applause, 
by  Mr.  Morphy. 


GAMB    XC. 

Third  Board — Mr.  Avery. 


SICILIAN  OPENING. 


WHITE.    Mr.  M. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  P  to  Q"s  4th 

3.  KKttoKB'sSrd 

4.  Kt  takes  P 


BLACK.      Mr.  A. 

1.  P  to  Q  B's  4th 

2.  P  takes  P 

3.  Q  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

4.  P  to  K's  3rd 


MORPHY  S   GAMES   OF   CHESS. 


103 


5.  QBtoK'sSrd 

6.  K  B  to  Q's  3rd 

7.  Kt  takes  QKt 
S.  P  to  K's  5th 

9.  P  to  K  B's  4th 

10.  Castles  (a) 

11.  Q  takes  B 

12.  Kt  to  Q's  2nd 

13.  Q  takes  B 

14.  Q  Pv  to  K's  sq 

15.  P  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

16.  P  takes  P 

17.  P  to  K  Kt's  3rd 
IS.  KtoKfs2nd 

19.  Q  E  takes  Q 

20.  K  E  to  K's  sq 

21.  K  E  to  K's  2nd  (c) 

22.  Q  E  to  K's  7th 

23.  P  takes  P 

24.  Q  E  to  K's  8th  (ch.) 

25.  Q  E  to  Q  B's  8th 

26.  Q  E  to  Q  B's  7th 

27.  K  E  to  K's  7th 

28.  E  takes  E  (ch.) 

29.  E  to  K's  8th 

30.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 
81.  E  to  K's  7th  (ch.) 
32.  E  to  K's  8th 

S3.  E  to  K's  7th  (ch.) 


6.  KKttoKB'sSrd 

6.  P  to  Q's  4th 

7.  P  takes  Kt 

8.  Kt  to  Q's  2nd 

9.  QB  toQE'sSrd 

10.  B  takes  B 

11.  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

12.  B  takes  B  (ch.) 

13.  Q  to  Q  Kt's  3rd  (5) 

14.  Castles  on  K's  side 

15.  P  to  K  B's  3rd 

16.  K  E  takes  P 

17.  Q  E  to  K  B's  sq 

18.  Q  takes  Q 

19.  P  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

20.  P  to  K's  4th 

21.  P  takes  P 

22.  Q  E  to  K  B's  2nl 

23.  KE  takes  P 

24.  K  to  Kt's  2nd 

25.  K  E  to  K  B's  8rd 

26.  Kt  to  K  B's  sq 

27.  Q  E  takes  K 

28.  E  to  K  B's  2nd 
2&.  Kt  to  Q's  2nd 

E  to  K  B's  sq 
E  to  B's  2nd 
E  to  K  B's  sq 
E  to  K  B's  2nd 


31 


And  the  game  was  abandoned  as  a  drawn  battle. 

'       (a)  Much  better  than  taking  the  Bishop,  because  that  would  have  enabled 
Black,  after  he  had  checked  with  his  Queen  and  regained  the  piece,  to  im- 
■    pede  White's  castling. 

(&)  This  game  of  exchanging  off  all  the  pieces  is  rather  favorable  to  the 
unseeing  player. 

(c)  Foreseeing  that,  by  taking  the  proffered  Pawn,  he  must  have  lost  • 
piece. 


GAME    XCI. 

Fourth  Board — ^Mr,  Kipping. 


SCOTCH  GAMBIT. 


WHITE.    Mr.  M. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  K  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 
8.  P  to  Q's  4th 

4.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

5.  Castles 

6.  P  TO  Q  B's  3rd 

7.  Q  B  to  K  Kt's  5th 

8.  P  takes  P 

9.  Kt  takes  Kt 

10.  P  to  K  B's  4th 

11.  K  to  E's  sq 


BLACK.     Mr.  K. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  Q  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

3.  P  takes  P 

4.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

5.  P  to  Q's  3rd 

6.  Q  to  K  B's  3rd 

7.  Q  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

8.  Q  Kt  takes  P 

9.  Q  takes  B 

10.  Q  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

11.  Kt  to  K  E's  3rd 


104 

12.  P  to  K  E'8  8rd  (a)  12.  Q  B  takes  K  E  P 

13.  P  takes  B  13.  Q  takes  K  P  (ch.) 

14.  QtoKB'sSrd  14.  Q  takes  K  Kt 

15.  K  K  to  K's  sq  (ch.)  15.  K  to  Q's  2nd 

16.  Kt  to  Q  E's  3rd  16.  B  takes  Kt 

17.  B  to  Q  Kt'8  5th  (ch.)  17.  P  to  Q  B's  3rd 

18.  P  takes  B  (b)  IS.  K  E  to  K's  sq 

19.  Q  E  to  Q  B's  sq  19.  P  to  Q's  4th 

20.  Q  to  Q  Kt's  3rd  20.  K  to  Q  B's  2nd 

21.  B  to  Q's  3rd  21.  K  E  to  K's  6th 

22.  E  takes  E  22.  Q  takes  E 

23.  E  to  Q  Kt's  sq  23.  Q  takes  K  E  P  (ch.) 

24.  K  to  K  Kt's  sq  24.  P  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

25.  E  to  K's  sq  25.  Q  to  K  Kt's  6th  (ch.) 

26.  K  to  B's  sq  26.  Q  takes  P  (ch.) 

27.  K  to  Kt's  2ad  27.  Q  to  K  Kt's  4th  (ch.) 

28.  K  to  B's  sq  28,  Kt  to  Kt's  5th 

29.  E  to  E's  2nd  29.  Kt  to  K's  6th  (ch.) 

And  White  resigned. 

(a)  Throughout  the  whole  of  this  prodigious  exploit,  the  present  move 
was  the  only  instance  in  which  Mr.  Morphy  was  guilty  of  a  miscalculation ; 
and  in  this  case  the  error  is  not  at  all  obvious,  even  to  a  player  who  ha» 
board  and  men  before  him. 

(6)  All  this  is  very  ingenious,  but  the  loss  of  Pawns  and  exposure  of  his 
King  entailed  by  the  slip  at  move  12  are  not  to  be  recovered ;  and  he  very 
soon  appears  to  have  made  up  hia  mind  to  abandon  this  game  and  direct 
hia  attention  to  the  others. 


GAME    XCII. 

Fifth  Board — Mr.  Rhodes, 
king's  gambit  deolined. 

WHITE.      Mr.  M.  BLAOK.      Ml'.  R. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th  1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  P  to  K  B's  4th  2.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 
8.  K  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd  3.  Q  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

4.  P  takes  P  4  P  to  Q's  4th 

5.  P  takes  P  5.  Q  takes  P 

6.  Q  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd  6.  Q  to  Q's  sq 

7.  Q  Kt  to  K's  4th  7.  B  to  Q  Kfs  8rd 

8.  P  to  Q  B's  3rd  8.  Q  B  to  K  Kt's  5th 

9.  P  to  Q's  4th  9.  Q  to  Q's  4th 

10.  Kt  to  K  B's  2nd  10.  Q  Kt  takes  K  P  (a) 

11.  Q  to  K's  2nd  11.  Q  B  takes  Kt 

12.  P  takes  B  12.  Q  takes  K  B  P 

13.  Q  takes  Kt  (ch.)  13.  K  to  B's  sq 
14  K  B  to  K's  2nd  14  Q  to  Q  B's  3rd 

15.  K  E  to  K  Kt's  sq  15.  P  to  K  B's  3rd 

16.  Q  to  K  Kt's  3rd  16,  P  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

17.  Q  B  to  K's  3rd  17.  Q  E  to  K's  sq 

18.  K  to  Q's  2nd  18,  K  Kt  to  K's  2nd 

19.  K  B  to  Q's  3rd  19,  Q  to  Q's  2nd 

20.  Kt  to  K  Kt's  4tb  20.  Kt  to  Q's  4th 

21.  Q  E  to  K's  sq  21.  Kt  takes  B 


MORPHT  S   GAMES    OF    CHESS. 


f06 


22.  R  takes  Kt  22.  Q  to  K  B'8  2nd 

23.  Kt  takes  K  B  P  23.  E  takes  E 

24.  Q  takes  E  24.  Q  takes  Q  E  P 

25.  Q  to  K's  8th  (ch.)  25.  K  to  Kt's  2nd 

And  White  gave  mate  in  three  moves. 

(a)  This  capture  was  made  in  the  expectation,  perhaps,  that  White  -would 
take  with  the  Queen's  Pawn,  in  which  case  Black,  of  course,  must  have 
gained  a  piece  in  return. 


GAME    XCIII. 

Sixth  Board. — Dr.  Freeman. 
king's  bishop's  gambit. 


WHITE.    Mr.  M. 

1.  P  to  K' 8  4th 

2.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 
8.  P  to  Q  Kt's  4th 

4.  K  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

5.  P  to  Q's  4th 

6.  K  Kt  takes  P 

7.  Q  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

8.  Castles 

9.  Kt  takes  Kt 

10.  Q  B  to  K  Kt's  5th 

11.  K  B  takes  Q  P 

12.  K  E  to  K's  sq 

13.  Kt  to  K  B's  6th  (ch.) 

14.  Q  B  takes  P 

15.  Kt  to  K's  6th  (6) 

16.  Q  to  K  E's  5th 

17.  K  to  E's  sq 
IS.  E  takes  Q  B 

19.  Q  B  to  Q  Kt's  2nd 

20.  P  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

21.  P  takes  Q 

22.  B  takes  B 

23.  Q  E  to  K  Kt's  sq  (ch.) 

24.  Q  E  takes  Kt  (ch.) 

25.  E  takes  P  (ch.) 

26.  E  to  K  Kt's  7th  (ch.) 

27.  KBtoK's4th(ch.) 

28.  K  B  to  Q's  3rd 

29.  E  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

30.  Q  B  to  K's  5th 

81.  Q  B  to  K  B's  4th  (ch.) 

82.  E  to  K  Kt's  5th 

83.  K  to  Kt's  2nd 

84.  K  B  takes  P  (ch.) 

85.  P  to  K  E's  4th 
36.  Q  B  takes  E 
87.  K  to  B's  3rd 

And  Black  struck 


BLACK.     Dr.  F. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

3.  K  B  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

4.  P  to  Q's  3rd 

5.  P  takes  P 

6.  K  Kt  to  K  B's  8rd 

7.  Castles 

8.  Kt  takes  KP 

9.  P  to  Q's  4th 

10.  Q  to  K's  sq 

11.  P  to  Q  B's  3rd 

12.  Q  to  Q's  2nd 

13.  P  takes  Kt 

14.  Q  to  Q's  3rd  (a) 

15.  Q  B  takes  Kt 

16.  K  B  takes  P(ch.) 

17.  Q  to  K  B's  5th 

18.  Kt  to  Q's  2nd 

19.  B  to  Q's  5th 

20.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

21.  Kt  takes  Q 

22.  Kt  takes  K  B  P 

23.  Kt  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

24.  K  E  P  takes  E 

25.  K  to  K  E's  2nd 

26.  K  to  E's  3rd 

27.  P  to  K  B's  4th 

28.  P  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

29.  K  E  to  K  B's  2nd 
80.  QEtoK'ssq 

31.  K  to  E's  2nd 

82.  Q  E  to  K's  8th  (ch.) 

33.  K  E  to  K  Kt's  2nd 

84.  K  to  E's  sq 

85.  E  takes  E(ch,) 
36.  E  to  K's  sq 

his  colors. 


(a)  Had  he  taken  the  Bishop  with  Queen  or  Pawn,  White  would  hav« 
von  instantly,  by  playing  E  to  K's  5th. 
(I)  Beautifully  playecL 

6* 


106 


morphy's  games  of  chess. 


GAME     XCIV. 

Seventh  Board. — Mr.  Carr. 


lEEEGULAB   OPENING. 


WHITE.    Mr.  M. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  P  to  Q's  4th 

8.  K  B  to  Q's  3rd 

4.  K  Kt  to  K'a  2nd 

6.  Castles 

6.  P  to  Q  B's  4th 

7.  P  to  K's  5th 

8.  P  to  K  B's  4th 

9.  K  Kt  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

10.  Q  to  K  Kt's  4th 

11.  K  Kt  to  K  E's  5th 

12.  P  takes  K  Kt  P 

13.  B  takes  Kt  (ch.) 

14.  Kt  to  K  B's  6th 
J5.  K  B  to  Q  B's  2nd 

16.  Q  takes  Q 

17.  Q  takes  B 

18.  QB  takes  KKtP 

19.  B  to  K  B's  3rd 

20.  B  to  K  R's  6th  (ch.) 

21.  E  to  K  R's  3rd  (ch.) 

22.  R  to  K  R's  5th  (ch.) 

23.  K  to  B's  2nd 


BLACK.     Mr.  C. 

1.  P  to  K  R's  3rd  (a) 

2.  P  to  Q  R's  4th 
8.  P  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

4.  P  to  K's  3rd 

5.  Q  B  to  Q  R's  3rd 

6.  K  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

7.  K  Kt  to  K  R's  2nd 

8.  K  B  to  K's  2nd 

9.  P  to  Q's  4th 

10.  Castles 

11.  P  to  K  Kt's  4th  (&) 

12.  K  R  P  takes  P 

13.  K  to  R's  sq 

14.  Q  P  takes  P 

15.  Q  takes  P  (ch.) 

16.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

17.  P  takes  Q 

18.  Kt  to  Q  B's  Brd 

19.  K  to  Kt's  2nd 

20.  K  takes  B 

21.  K  to  Kt's  4th 

22.  K  to  K  B'3  5th 


And  Black  sarrendered. 

(<j)  This  Mzarre  defence  was  adopted,  we  presume,  with  the  notion  that 
it  would  embarrass  tlie  blindfolded  performer,  but  it  only  tended  to  facili- 
tate his  victory  by  enabling  him  to  bring  his  forces  more  rapidly  to  the 
attack. 

(5)  "What  a  deplorable  game  Black  has  now  got  by  the  vain  attempt  to 
perplex  his  adversary  in  the  opening  1 


GAME     XCV. 

Eighth  Board. — Mr.  Wills. 


SICILIAN   OPENING. 

•white.     Mr.  M.  black.    Mr.  W. 


1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  KKttoKB'sSrd 
8.  P  to  Q's  4th 

4.  K  Kt  takes  P 

5.  Q  B  to  K's  3rd 

6.  K  B  to  Q's  3rd 

7.  Kt  takes  Q  Kt 


1.  P  to  Q  B's  4th 

2.  Q  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

3.  P  takes  P 

4.  P  to  K's  3rd 

5.  K  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

6.  P  to  K's  4th 

7.  Q  Kt  P  takes  Kt 


morphy's    games 

OF    CHESS. 

8.  Castles 

8.  PtoQ'sSrd 

9.  P  to  K  B's  4th 

9.  P  takes  P 

10.  Q  B  takes  K  B  P 

10.  K  B  to  K's  2nd 

11.  Q  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

11.  Q  E  to  Q  Kt's  sq 

12.  P  to  K's  5th 

12.  P  takes  P 

13.  Q  B  takes  P 

13.  Q  E  to  Q  Kt's  5th 

14.  Q  to  K  B's  3rd 

14.  Q  to  Q  Kt's  3rd  (ch.) 

15.  Q  B  to  K  Kt's  5th 

15.  K  to  E's  sq 

16.  Q  to  K  B's  2nd 

16.  Q  takes  Q 

17.  K  E  takes  Q 

17.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

18.  K  K  to  K  B's  sq 

18,  K  B  to  K's  2nd 

19.  PtoQE'sSrd 

19.  Q  E  to  Q  Kt's  2nd 

20.  Q  Kt  to  K's  4th 

20.  Q  B  to  Q's  2nd 

21.  Kt  takes  Kt  (ch.) 

21.  P  takes  Kt 

22.  Q  B  takes  P 

22.  B  takes  B 

23.  K  E  takes  B 

23.  Q  E  takes  Q  Kt  P 

24.  Q  E  to  K's  sq  (ch.) 

24.  B  to  K's  3rd 

25.  B  to  K  B's  5th 

25.  K  to  K's  2nd 

26.  K  E  to  K  E's  6th 

26.  K  E  to  Q  Kt's  sq 

27.  B  takes  B 

27.  Q  E  to  Q  Kt's  8th 

28.  Q  E  to  K  Kt's  sq 

28.  P  takes  B 

29.  E  takes  K  E  P  (ch.) 

29.  K  to  Q's  8rd 

30.  E  takes  Q  E  P 

30.  E  takes  E  (ch.) 

31.  K  takes  E 

31.  E  to  Q  Kt's  Sth  (ch.) 

32.  K  to  K  B's  2nd 

32.  E  to  Q  Kt's  7th 

33.  P  to  K  E's  4th 

83.  E  takes  Q  B  P  (ch.) 

84.  K  to  K  B's  3rd 

34.  K  to  K's  4th 

35.  P  to  K  E's  5th 

35.  K  to  K  B's  4th 

86.  P  to  K  E's  6th 

36.  EtoQ-s7th 

37.  P  to  K  E's  7th 

And  Black  cried 

" enough  1" 

GAME    XCVI. 

107 


Eight  games  played  in  Paris  by  Mr.  Morphy,  simulta- 
neously, without  sight  of  boards  or  men,  against  eight  of 
the  strongest  French  players. 

First  Board— Mr.  Boucher. 


PmiilDOE  S  DEFENCE. 


-WHITE.    Mr.  M. 

BLACK.     Mr.  ] 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  K  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

2.  P  to  Q's  3rd 

8.  P  to  Q's  4th 

3.  P  takes  P 

4  Q  takes  P 

4.  Q  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

5.  K  B  to  Q  Kt's  5th 

5.  Q  B  to  Q's  2nd 

6.  B  takes  Kt 

6.  B  takes  B 

7.  B  to  K  Kt's  5th 

7.  P  to  K  B's  3rd 

8.  B  to  K  E's  4th 

8.  Kt  to  K  E's  3rd 

9.  Q  Kt  to  Q  B  s  3rd 

9.  K  B  to  K's  2nd 

10.  Castles  (K  E) 

10.  Castles 

11.  Q  to  Q  B's  4th  (ch.) 

11.  KtoE'ssq 

12.  KKt  to  Q's  4th 

12.  Q  to  Q's  2nd 

108 


MORPHY  S    GAMES    OF    CHESS. 


13.  Q  E  to  Q's  sq 
14  P  to  K  B's  4th 

13.  KEtoKB'8  2nd 

14  P  to  Q  E's  4th 

15.  P  to  K  B's  5th 

15.  K  E  to  K  B's  sq 

16.  K  Kt  to  K's  6th 

16.  K  E  to  K  Kt's  sq 

IT.'  P  to  Q  Pv's  4th 

17.  Kt  to  Kt's  5th 

18.  Q  to  K's  2nd 

18.  Kt  to  K's  4th 

19.  B  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

19.  Q  to  Q  B's  sq  (a) 

20.  B  takes  Kt 

20.  Q  P  takes  B 

21.  K  E  to  K  B's  3rd  (5) 

22.  K  E  to  K  E's  3rd  id) 

21.  Q  B  to  Q's  2nd  (c) 

22.  P  to  K  E's  3rd 

23.  Q  to  Q's  2nd 

23.  K  to  E's  2nd  {e) 

24.  Q  takes  Q  B 

24.  B  to  Q's  8rd 

25.  K  E  takes  K  E  P  (ch.)  (/) 

25.  K  takes  E 

26.  E  to  Q's  3rd  {g) 

26.  K  to  E's  4th 

27.  Q  to  K  B's  7th  (ch.) 

And  wins ;  the  battle  having 

lasted  about  seven  hours. 

(a)  To  enable  him  to  capture  the  Bishop,  which  is  about  to  take  the 
Knight  with  the  Queen's  Pawn. 

(6)  The  attack  looks  already  irresistible,  but  the  actual  finish  is  charm- 
ingly accompUsbed. 

(c)  By  this  move,  Black  may  be  said  to  lose  a  piece.  His  best  course — 
but  that  a  bad  one — was  possibly  to  retreat  this  Bishop  to  K's  square. 

{d)  Threatening  mate  in  two  moves. 

ie)  To  avert  the  promised  mate,  by  E  takes  P,  &c. 

(/)  The  termination  is  very  pretty — quite  an  elegant  little  problem. 

{g)  And  Black  has  no  possible  means  of  escape ;  for  if  he  play  Q  to  K's  sq. 
White  simply  captures  the  Queen  for  nothing :  if  B  to  Q  B's  4th  (ch.),  then 
follows  K  to  B's  sq,  &c. 


GAME    XCVII. 

Second  Board — Mr.  Bierwirth. 


FRENCH  OPENING. 


WHITE.    Mr.  M. 

1  P  to  K's  4th 
2.  P  to  Q's  4th 
8.  K  B  to  Q's  3rd 
4  P  takes  P 

5.  K  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

6.  Castles 

7.  P  to  K  E's  8rd 

8.  Q  B  to  K's  3rd 

9.  K  E  to  K's  sq 

10.  Q  Kt  to  Q's  2nd 

11.  Kt  takes  B 

12.  Q  to  Q's  2nd 
18.  P  to  Q  B's  4th 

14.  K  B  takes  P 

15.  Kt  to  K's  5th 

16.  K  B  to  K's  6th 

17.  P  takes  B 

18.  Q  to  Q  B's  3rd  (a) 

19.  Q  to  Q  E's  3rd 

20.  QEtoQB'saq 


BLACK.     Mr.  B. 

1.  P  to  K's  3rd 

2.  P  to  Q  B's  3rd 

3.  P  to  Q's  4th 

4.  K  P  takes  P 

5.  Q  B  to  K  Kt's  5th 

6.  K  B  to  Q's  3rd 

7.  Q  B  to  K  E's  4th 

8.  Q  Kt  to  Q's  2nd 

9.  K  Kt  to  K's  2nd 

10.  Q  B  takes  Kt 

11.  P  to  K  E's  3rd 

12.  Q  to  Q  B's  2nd 

13.  P  takes  P 

14  P  to  K  B's  4th 

15.  Castles  (Q  E) 

16.  B  takes  Kt 

17.  K  to  Q  Kt's  sq 

18.  Q  Kt  to  Q  Kt's  8rd 

19.  Q  Kt  to  Q  Bs  sq 

20.  P  to  K  Kt's  4th 


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109 


21.  P  to  K  B's  4tli 

22.  Q  B  takes  P 

23.  Q  to  K's  3rd 

24.  Q  to  K  B's  3rd 

25.  K  to  K  R's  2nd 

26.  R  takes  E 

27.  E  to  K's  2nd 

28.  Q  B  to  Q's  2nd 

29.  K  B  takes  Kt 
SO.  B  takes  K  E  P 
31.  B  to  K  Kt's  Tth 

82.  B  to  K  B's  6th 

83.  Q  to  K  E's  5th 

84.  Q  takes  R 

And  Black  surrenders,  after  a  struggle  of  nearly  nine  hours. 
(a)  A  very  ingenious  move.    If  Black  take  the  Pawn  with  his  yaeen,  ne 
of  course  loses  her  by  "  B  takes  Q  R  P  (ch.),"  &c.,  and  if  with  the  Knight, 
it  costs  hini  at  least  a  piece. 


21.  P  takes  P 

22.  Q  R  to  Q's  5th 

23.  Q  R  to  K's  5th 
21  Q  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

25.  Q  R  takes  R 

26.  Q  to  Q  Kt's  5th 

27.  K  Kt  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

28.  Q  to  Q  Kt's  4th 

29.  R  takes  B 
SO.  R  to  K  R's  sq 
31.  R  to  K  R's  2nd 
82.  R  to  K  B's  2nd 
33.  Kt  to  K  B's  5th 


GAME    XCVIII. 

Third  Board — Mr.  Bornemann, 

Kma's  gambit  declined. 

WHITE.     Mr,  M.  BLACK.    Mr.  B. 


1.  P  to  K's  4th 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  P  to  K  B's  4th 

2.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

S.  K  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

3.  P  to  Q's  3rd 

4.  P  to  Q  B's  3rd 

4.  Q  B  to  K  Kt's  5th 

5.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

6.  K  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

6.  P  takes  P 

6.  B  takes  Kt 

7.  Q  takes  B 

7.  Q  P  takes  P 

8.  P  to  Q's  3rd 

8.  Q  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

9.  Q  B  to  K  Kt's  5th 

9.  P  to  Q  R's  3rd 

10.  Q  Kt  to  Q^s  2nd 

10.  B  to  K's  2nd 

11.  Castles  (Q  R) 

IL  Q  to  Q's  2nd 

12.  Kt  to  K  B's  sq 

12.  Castles  (Q  R) 

13.  Kt  to  K's  3rd 

13.  P  to  K  R's  3rd 

14.  Q  B  to  K  R's  4th 

14.  P  to  K  Kt's  4th 

15.  Q  B  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

15.  Q  E  to  K  B's  sq 

16.  Kt  to  Q's  5th 

16.  K  Kt  to  K's  sq 

17.  P  to  Q's  4th 

17.  P  takes  Q  P 

18.  P  takes  P 

18.  K  Kt  to  Q's  3rd 

19.  K  B  to  Q  Kt"s  3rd 

19.  B  to  Q's  sq 

20.  K  R  to  K  B's  sq 

20.  K  Kt  to  Q  Kt's  4th 

21.  Q  to  K's  3rd 

21.  P  to  K  B's  4th 

22.  P  takes  P 

22.  Q  E  takes  P 

28.  Kt  to  Q  Kt's  6th  (ch.)  (a) 

23.  P  takes  Kt 

24.  K  B  to  K's  6th 

24.  Q  R  to  Q's  4th 

25.  K  R  to  K  B's  Tth 

25.  Q  Kt  to  K's  2nd 

26.  K  to  Q  Kt's  sq  (&) 

26.  K  R  to  K's  sq 

27.  Q  R  to  Q  B's  sq  (ch.) 

28.  K  B  takes  Q  (ch.)      ' 

27.  K  Kt  to  Q  B's  2na 

28.  Q  R  takes  B 

29.  P  to  Q's  5th  (c) 

29.  Q  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

80.  P  takes  Kt 

30.  K  E  takes  Q 

81.  P  takes  Q  R  (ch.) 

And  Black  gave  up  the  battle,  after  fighting  for  above  nine  h 

110 


MORPHY  S    GAI*rES    OF    CHESS. 


(a)  A  manoeuvre  altogether  unforeseen  by  Mr.  Bornemann. 

(b)  No  hurry :  poor  Black  is  in  the  toils,  and  escape  impossible,  do  what- 
he  can. 

(c)  Capitally  played.    Black  can  take  it  only  at  the  expense  of  a  piece. 


GAME    XCIX. 

Fourth  Board — Mr.  Guibert. 


IRREGULAR   OPENING. 


WHITE.    Mr.  M. 


BLACK.     Mr.  G. 


1.  P  to  Q's  4th 

1.  P  to  Q's  4th 

2.  P  takes  P 

2.  Q  takes  P 

8.  Q  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

3.  Q  to  Q's  sq 

4.  P  to  Q's  4th 

4.  P  to  K's  Srd 

5.  K  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

5.  K  B  to  Q's  3rd 

6.  KB  to  Q's  3rd 

6.  K  Kt  to  K's  2nd 

7.  Castles 

7.  P  to  K  R's  3rd 

8.  Q  B  to  K's  3id 

8.  P  to  Q  B's  3rd 

9.  K  Kt  to  K's  5th 

9.  Q  Kt  to  Q's  2nd 

10.  P  to  K  Bs  4th 

10.  Q  Kt  to  K  B'i^rd 

11.  QKt  to  K's  4th 

11.  K  Kt  to  K  B's  4th 

12.  Q  B  to  K  Bs  2nd 

12.  K  B  to  Q  Bs  2ad 

13.  P  to  Q  Bs  3rd 

13.  Q  Kt  to  Q's  4th 

14.  Q  to  K  B's  3rd 

14.  Q  to  K's  2nd 

15.  Q  R  to  K's  sq 

15.  K  B  takes  Kt 

16.  Q  P  takes  B  (rr) 

16.  P  to  K  K's  4th 

17.  Q  B  to  (2  B's  5th 

17.  Q  to  Q's  sq 

IS.  Kt  to  Q's  6th  (ch.) 

IS.  Kt  takes  B 

19.  Q  B  takes  Kt  {b) 

19.  P  to  K  Kt's  Srd 

20.  Q  to  K  Kt's  3rd  (c) 

20.  Kt  to  K's  2nd 

2L  Q  E  to  Q's  sq 

21.  B  to  Q's  2nd 

22.  Q  R  to  Q-s  2nd 

22.  P  to  K  R's  5th 

23.  Q  to  K  Kfs  4th 

23.  Kt  to  K  B's  4th 

24.  K  B  takes  Kt 

24.  KP  takes  Kt 

25.  Q  to  K  B's  3rd 

25.  Q  to  Q  Kt's  3rd  (ch.) 

26.  K  to  R's  sq 

26.  Castles  (Q  R) 

27.  P  to  Q  B's  4th 

27.  P  to  K  R's  6ih 

28.  P  to  K  Kt's  3rd 

2S.  B  to  K's  3rd 

29.  Q  to  Q  B's  3rd 

29.  Q  R  to  Q's  2nd 

80.  K  R  to  Q's  sq 

80.  P  to  Q  B's  4th 

81.  K  to  K  Kt's  sq 

81.  K  R  to  Q's  sq 

82.  Q  to  Q  R's  8rd 

82.  P  to  Q  R's  Srd 

83.  B  takes  Q  B  P 

83.  Q  to  Q  B's  Srd  (d) 

84  B  to  Q's  6th 

34,  P  to  K  B's  Srd 

85.  QRtoQ'8  5th(e) 

35.  B  t:ikes  R 

36.  R  takes  B 

86.  R  takes  B 

87.  P  takes  R 

87.  K  to  Kt's  sq 

8S.  Q  to  Q's  8rd 

88.  R  takes  P 

89.  Q  to  Q's  2nd  (/) 

89.  R  takes  R 

40.  P  takes  R 

40.  Q  to  Q  B's  4th  (ch.) 

41.  K  to  B's  sq 

41.  Q  to  Q  B's  5th  (ch.) 

42.  K  to  B's  2nd 

42.  Q  to  Q  B's  4th  (ch.) 

And  the  game  was  declared  draTrn 

baring  lasted  about  nine  hours. 

(a)  "White  thus  early  has  acquired 
forces  are  all  in  the  field,  and  bis  King 


a  va.st  superiority  in  position;  his 
safely  housed,  while  the  adversary's 


morphy's  games  of  chess. 


Ill 


men  are  out  of  plav,  and  he  is  prevented  from  castling  by  the  threatened 
move  of  Q  B  to  Q  B's  5th. 
(&)  The  Bishop,  so  posted,  is  invincible. 

(c)  Threatening  to  take  the  K  Kt  P  with  his  K's  Bishop,  and  thus  win 
off-hand. 

(d)  Tliis  saves  Black's  game,  as  his  opponent,  on  account  of  the  threat- 
ened mate  at  K  Kt'.s  2nd,  is  unable  to  exchange  Eooks. 

(e)  Admirably  played  ;  and  this  blindfold,  a"nd  witli  the  thousand  shifting 
combinations  of  seven  other  games  to  keep  in  mind !  Verily,  it  makes 
one's  brain  ache  only  to  think  of  the  strain. 

(/)  He  obviously  could  not  take  the  Eook  because  of  the  mate  before- 
mentioned. 


GAME    C. 

Fifth  Board — Mr.  Luquesnb. 


IRREGULAR  OPENING. 


WHITE.      Mr.  M. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  P  to  Q's  4th 

3.  K  B  to  Q's  Srd 

4.  K  Kt  to  K  R's  3rd 

5.  Castles 

6.  P  to  K's  5th 

7.  P  to  Q  B's  Srd 

8.  P  to  K  B's  4tli 

9.  P  to  K  Kt's  4th 

10.  P  takes  P 

11.  Q  to  K  Kt's  4th 

12.  Q  to  K  Kfs  3rd 

13.  Q  Kt  to  Q"s  2nd 

14.  K  Kt  to  K  Kt's  5th 

15.  Q  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

16.  P  takes  B 

17.  Q  to  K  Kt's  2nd 
IS.  Q  B  to  Q's  2nd 

19.  Q  R  to  Q  B's  sq 

20.  P  to  Q  Kt's  4th 

21.  P  to  Q  R's  4th 

22.  Kt  to  K's  sq 

23.  K  E  to  K  B's  3rd 

24.  K  R  to  K  B's  4th 

25.  Q  B  takes  E 

26.  Q  Kt  P  takes  P 
21.  E  to  Q  Kt's  sq 
2S.  K  B  takes  Kt 

29.  Kt  to  Q  B's  2nd 

30.  P  to  Q  E's  5th 

31.  Q  to  K  Kfs  3rd 

32.  Q  to  K  Kfs  2nd 


BLACK.      Mr.  L. 

1.  P  to  Q  Kfs  Srd 

2.  Q  B  to  Q  Kfs  2nd 

3.  P  to  K's  Srd 

4.  K  Kt  to  K's  2nd 

5.  P  to  Q's  4th 

6.  K  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

7.  K  B  to  K's  2nd 

8.  P  to  K  Kfs  Srd 

9.  P  to  K  E's  4th 

10.  K  E  takes  P 

11.  K  R  to  K  E's  5th 

12.  K  to  Q's  2nd 

13.  Q  to  K  E's  sq 

14.  K  Kt  to  Q's  sq 

15.  K  B  tal<es  K  Kt 

16.  K  E  to  K  E's  6th 

17.  Q  Kt  to  Q  B"s  Snl 

18.  Q  Kt  to  K's  2nd 

19.  Q  E  to  Q  B's  sq 

20.  P  to  Q  E's  Srd 

21.  Q  to  K  E's  4th 

22.  K  Kt  to  KB"s4lh 

23.  K  E  to  K  E's  5tli 
24  K  E  takes  E 

25.  P  to  Q  B-s  4th 

26.  P  takes  P 

27.  P  t(.  Q  B's  5th 
K  Kt  P  takes  B 
B  to  Q  B's  Srd 

30.  Q  to  K  E's  5th 

81.  Q  to  K  K's  4th 

82.  Q  to  K  E's  5th 


29. 


At  this  point,  neither  party  being  disposed  to  vary  his  moves,  the  game 
resigned  as  a  xtnxwN  battlb. 


112 


morphy's  games  of  chess. 


GAME    CI. 

Sixth  Board — Mr.  Potier, 
peteoff's  defence. 


WHITE.    Mr.  M. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  K  Kt  to  K  B's  Srd 

3.  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

4.  Q  Kt  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

5.  Kt  takes  K  P 

6.  K  B  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

7.  P  to  Q's  4th 

8.  Castles 

9.  P  to  K  B's  4th 

10.  Q  to  K  B's  3rd 

11.  P  to  K  Bs  5th 

12.  Q  B  to  K  B's  4th 

13.  Q  K  to  K's  sq 

14.  Q  to  K  Kfs  3rd 

15.  K  Kt  to  Kfs  Cth  (ch.)  (&) 

16.  Q  B  takes  B 

17.  Q  B  takes  Q 

18.  K  B  P  takes  P 

19.  K  to  E's  sq 

20.  Q  R  to  K"s  7th 

21.  Q  B  to  K'.s  5th 

22.  Q  R  to  K  B's  7th  (ch.)  (e) 

23.  Kt  takes  Q  P 

24.  K  B  takes  P 

25.  K  B  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

And  Black 


BLACK.    Mr.  p. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  K  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 

3.  Kt  takes  K  P 

4.  K  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd  (a) 

5.  P  to  Q's  4th 

6.  K  B  to  K's  2nd 

7.  P  to  Q  B's  3rd 

8.  Q  Kt  to  Q's  2nd 

9.  Q  Kt  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

10.  P  to  K  B's  4th 

11.  Q  to  Q  B's  2nd 

12.  K  B  to  Q's  3rd 

13.  K  to  B's  sq 
14  P  to  Q  R's  5tb 

15.  K  to  Kt's  sq 

16.  P  takes  Q 

17.  P  takes  Kt 

18.  P  takes  K  E  P  (ch.) 

19.  B  to  K  Kt's  5th 

20.  QKttoQ's2nd 

21.  K  to  B's  sq 

22.  K  to  Kt's  sq 

23.  P  takes  Kt 

24  Q  Kt  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 


abandons  the  game. 


(a)  It  Is  to  be  regretted  that  Mr.  Potier  did  not  take  the  Kt  rather  than 
retreat,  as  many  amateurs  would  have  been  pleased  to  see  Mr.  Morphy  car- 
rying out  the  attack  of  this  interesting  and  comparatively  novel  debut. 

(b)  Finely  played. 

(c)  The  termination  of  this  partie  is  as  elegant  and  finished  as  that  of  the 
first  game. 


GAME     CII. 
Seventh  Board — Mr.  Preti. 


SICILIAN  opening. 


"w^HiTE.    Mr.  M. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  P  to  Q's  4th 

3.  K  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd 
4  K  B  to  Q  B's  4th 

5.  P  to  Q  B's  3rd 

6.  P  takes  P 


Mr.  P. 


BLACK. 

1.  P  to  Q  B's  4th 

2.  P  takes  P 

3.  P  to  K's  4th 
4KB  checks 

5.  P  takes  P 

6,  K  B  to  Q  B's  4tb 


morphy's  gambs  of  chess. 


113 


7.  K  Kt  takes  K  P 

7,  Q  to  K  B's  Srd 

8.  K  B  takes  K  B  P  (ch.) 

8.  K  to  B's  sq 

9.  K  Kt  to  Q's  3rd 

9.  KB  to  Q  Kt's  3rd 

10.  K  B  to  Q  Kt's  8rd 

10.  P  to  Q's  Srd 

11.  QBtoQK'sSrd 

11.  Q  Kt  to  Q  B's  Srd 

12.  Castles 

12.  K  Kt  to  K  R-s  sq 

13.  P  to  K's  5th 

13.  Q  to  K  Kt's  Srd 

14.  K  Kt  to  K  B's  4th 

14.  Q  to  K  Kt's  5th 

15.  K  Kt  to  K's  6th  (ch.)  (o) 

15.  Q  B  takes  Kt 

10.  Q  takes  Q  P  (ch.) 

16.  K  to  B's  2nd 

37.  Q  to  Q's  7th  (ch.) 

17.  K  to  K  Kt's  Srd 

IS.  K  B  takes  B 

18.  Q  to  K  Kt's  4th 

19.  K  B  to  Q's  5th 

19.  QKt  takes  KP 

20.  K  B  to  K's  4th  (ch.) 

20.  K  Kt  to  K  B's  4th 

21.  Q  to  K's  6th  (ch.) 

21.  Q  to  K  Bs  Srd 

22.  K  B  takes  Kt  (cli.) 

22.  K  to  K  K's  4th 

23.  P  to  K  Kt's  4th  (ch.) 

23.  Kt  takes  P 

24.  K  B  takes  Kt  (ch.) 

And  Black  surrenders. 

(a)  This  is  mora  effectual  than  taking  the  Queen's  Pawn  with  Queen  at 
once. 


GAME    cm. 

Eighth  Board — Mr.  Seguin. 


PHILIDOE  S   DEFENCE. 


WHITE.      Mr.  M. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  K  Kt  to  K  B's  Srd 

3.  P  to  Q's  4th 

4.  K  Kt  takes  P 

5.  Q  Kt  to  Q  B's  Srd 

6.  K  B  to  Q's  3rd 

7.  P  to  K  B's  4th 

S.  K  Kt  to  K  B's  Srd 
9.  Castles 

10.  Q  B  to  K's  Srd 

11.  PtoQE-s4th 

12.  PtoKR'sSrd 

13.  Q  takes  B 

14.  Q  R  to  Q-s  sq 

15.  P  to  Q  Kt's  Srd 

16.  P  takes  Kt 

17.  P  to  Q's  4th 

18.  P  takes  Q  B  P 

19.  P  to  K's  5th 

20.  K  R  takes  Q 

21.  Q  R  to  Q's  7th 

22.  Kt  to  Q's  5th 

23.  B  to  K  B's  2nd  (a) 

24.  Kt  to  Q  Kt's  6th 

25.  Kt  takes  R 

26.  R  to  Q  B's  Srd 

27.  Kt  takes  B 


BLACK.      Mr.  S. 

1.  P  to  K's  4th 

2.  P  to  Q's  3rd 
8.  P  takes  P 

4.  K  Kt  to  K  B's  Srd 

5.  K  B  to  K's  2nd 

6.  Castles 

7.  P  to  Q  B's  4th 

8.  Q  Kt  to  Q  B's  Srd 

9.  Q  B  to  K  Kt's  5th 

10.  P  to  Q  R's  3rd 

11.  P  to  K  Rs  Srd 

12.  Q  B  takes  Kt 

IS.  QKttoQKt's5th 

14.  Q  to  Q  B's  2nd 

15.  Q  Kt  takes  B 

16.  K  R  to  K's  sq 

17.  Q  to  Q  B's  Srd 

18.  P  takes  P 

19.  Q  takes  Q 

20.  Kt  to  K  R's  2nd 

21.  Q  R  to  Q  Kt's  sq 

22.  R  to  K  B's  sq 

23.  K  R  to  Q's  sq 

24.  R  takes  R 

25.  R  to  Q  B's  sq 

26.  R  to  Q  B's  2nd 

27.  Kt  takes  Kt 


114 


MORPHY  S    GAMES    OF   CHfiSS. 


28, 


E  takes  P 

B  takes  E 

B  to  K's  3rd 

P  to  K  Kt's  4th 

K  to  K  B's  2nd 

K  to  K's  2nd 

P  takes  P 

K  to  Q's  3rd 

B  to  Q  B's  5th  (ch.) 

K  to  K's  4th 

K  to  Q's  5  th 

P  to  K  B's  5th 

P  takes  P 

B  to  Q  Kt's  6th 

P  to  K's  6th  (ch.)  (5) 

P  takes  P  (ch.) 

K  to  Q  B's  6th 

B  takes  Kt  (ch.) 

K  to  Q's  6th 

P  to  K's  7th 

And  Mr.  8eguin  gave  in. 


28.  E  takes  E 

29.  Kt  to  K's  3rd 
80.  P  to  K  Kt's  3rd 
31.  Kt  to  Q's  sq 

82.  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd 

83.  P  to  Q  Kt's  4th 

34.  P  takes  P 

35.  K  to  B's  sq 

86.  K  to  K's  sq 

87.  K  to  Q's  2nd 

88.  Kt  to  Q's  sq 

89.  P  takes  P 

40.  P  to  K  E's  4th 

41.  Kt  to  Q  Kt's  2nd 

42.  P  takes  P 

43.  K  to  K's  2nd 
44  Kt  to  Q's  sq  (ch.) 

45.  K  lakes  B 

46.  K  to  K's  sq 


(a)  To  enable  him  to  play  the  Eook  to  the  Queen's  side. 

(&)  Every  step  is  made  with  the  same  precision  by  Mr.  Morphy,  in  thi 
the  conclusion  of  the  last  game,  after  ten  hours  of  unexampled  mental  f 
Bion,  which  he  exhibited  in  the  outset  of  the  first  parUe. 


FEERE'S 
PROBLEM  TOURNAMENT. 


Peoblem  No.  1.— By  Theo.  M.  Beowk. 
White  to  play,  and  checkmate  in  three  moves. 


^H  B H H 

fm m 


— ^« 


--«■ 


\  _._  v//m.      mm 


IP  139  m. 


Wi    m    m 

m.     mm.      mm » mm. 


116 


fr]&re's  problem  touknamekt. 


Problem  No.  2.— By  Samttel  Loyd. 
White  to  play,  and  checicmate  in  three  moyes. 


kW.i 


m  m  m  m 

ii^iJ  ....■ ■ 


i      «      M 

P^      W'^      WS^      ^ 

Wk    «    «.    fc 


y///M 

i 


Problem  No.  3. — Br  J.  H.  Morrison. 
White  to  play,  and  checkmate  in  three  moves. 


i      #ji      wM 
Wi^/       WM        #v^       ^^ 

^' * ^s«i«* 


ill*l«i 


.  ,...fe  ..  ft  ...^ 


mm  t  w% 


WM        MM        ^p? 

...^^    ^B    ^8  ,  1^, 

fm     9'^^%     wm     MM 

%%#       ^y-M       mM       ^j^ 
^  r^       ^^%?^       WM       y/M. 


frere's  problem  tournament. 


117 


Problem  No.  4.— By  Patterson.— Phila. 
"White  to  play,  and  checkmate  in  three  moves. 


m.  ...  mm. 


i 


mm,       ^^^^^^       '^^'^ 


»    «    «. m. 


VHITB. 

Problem  No.  5.— By  S.  H.  "Westoott, 
White  to  play,  and  checkmate  in  three  moves. 


i m. 


Wa 


Wa^ ■   ■ 


y/////////      ^^       ^ 


..M'..M^M^m 


VMa 


mm  .xu.  e 


i«a  B^B 


118 


fr^re's  problem  tournament. 


Problem  No.  6.— By  Jacob  Elson. 
"White  to  play,  and  checkmate  in  three  moves. 


1^         H^      ,^^.         M 

i  ill   iiii 


Wf«^«*^'^' 


WHnPK. 

Problem  No.  7. — By  John  Gardner. 
"White  to  play,  and  checkmate  in  three  moves. 


4M  ./hm.  ..w   ^ 


y//m 


wm 


^.11 ■4« ii 

ft 


Tl« m^mi 


<®  ^ 


^;2 


W/zM. 


m  m m 


■mm  e  <y<''m      M'# 


i«      «      If  I      « 


^is^^ 


fr^re's  problem  tournament. 


119 


Problem  No.  8.— Bt  N.  J.  Hamilton. 
White  to  play,  and  checkmate  in  three  moves. 


WHITE. 

Problem  No.  9.— By  Dr.  C.  C.  Mooee. 
"White  to  play,  and  checkmate  in  throe  moves. 


120 


frI:re's  problem  tournament. 


Problem  No.  10.— Bt  E.  A.  Ballaqueb. 
White  to  play,  and  checkmate  in  three  moves. 


Pkoblem  No,  11.— By  Dk.  N.  C.  Keid. 
White  to  play,  and  checkmate  in  three  moves. 


' 'WM 


i.    WM 


m m 


m «^. 


M      » 


y/M. 


frI:re's  problem  tournament. 


121 


Peoblem  No.  12.— By  Geo.  N.  Chenet. 
White  to  play,  and  checkmate  in  three  moves. 


WHITE. 

Problem  No.  13.— Br  Jacob  Emon. 
White  to  play,  and  checkmate  in  three  moves. 


.1!   B  i  B 

■m._ S  ...WM  *  ■ 


M     »     »     » 


0 


122 


FRfeRE's    PROBLEM   TOURNAMENT. 


Peoblem  No.  14.— By  De.  C.  C.  Moobe. 
White  to  play,  and  checkmate  in  three  moves. 


Ifii 


■  ■%« m 

1 mMm il 


Pboblem  No.  15.— By  Saml.  Lotd. 
"White  to  play,  and  checkmate  in  thx'ce  moves. 


fr^re's  problem  tournament. 


123 


Problem  No.  16.— By  Tiiko.  M.  Brq-wtt. 
THiite  to  play,  and  checkmate  in  three  moves. 


^^        Wm.^^     piM*^  V//////A 

Wi       «       M i//m. 


m  ..  .^m. 


^^^//^'^•^ 


■  *%^m. « 


ml     im 


.^mjm 


PI 


m 


mm'^m 


*--i^i^m 


fci 


lii ■ 


i      mm      ^&. 


WtllTE. 

PROBLKii  No.  17  —By  Geo.  N.  Citeney. 
White  to  play,  and  checkmate  in  three  moves. 


B  ■  ■  M 


vM     mm.     WM 


^        M 


a^  fi ii a 


lU 


TRfiRE's    PROBLEM    TOURNAMENT, 


Pboblem  No.  18.— By  Theo.  M.  Beown. 
White  to  play,  and  checkmate  in  three  moves. 


^  i 


■ 


m 


i m.  JmAwk 


S    ^ 


P. 


« 


^      ^      » 


WHITE. 

Problem  No.  19.— By  Dr.  C.  C.  Moore. 
White  to  play,  and  checkmate  in  three  moves. 


^  iw«    M 

^    ^    fc    ^^ 

i     ■     ■     ^ 


FRfiRE's    PROBLEM   TOURNAMENT.  125 

Problem  No.  20.-By  E.  A.  Ballagitek. 
White  to  play,  and  checkmate  in  three  movcst 


S^l 


V---^^-^- ^^ 


Problem  No.  21.— By  John  Gaedneb. 
White  to  play,  and  checkmato  in  three  moves. 


^1 "m^^^J* 


r^i    --. 


«    ei    ■  I  ^ 

^^^       ^P       W^.       WM 


m 


m 


mm        ^ 

'^^     vJm. 


126 


fr^re's  problem  tournament. 


Pboblbm  No.  22— By  Dr.  N.  C.  Eetd. 
White  to  play,  and  checkmate  in  three  moves. 


m m^mi^  ■w^ 

mm  %//M0'-'m0'- '^ 


WHITB. 

Peoblem  No.  23.— By  J.  H.  Moerison. 
White  to  play,  and  checkmate  in  four  moves. 


■*■    ■ 

,m.  Ilia 


W/A 


WA     W.     'W§>     % 

-^H   11 Bi B 


FRfeRE's    PROBLEM   TOURNAMENT. 


12^ 


Peoblem  No.  24— By  Clotilde. 
White  to  play,  and  checkmate  in  four  moves. 


mi 


■    HI    i 


m  i 


mm      ^ 
i^i P^ »  fc 


■       ■       ■       B 

I ©14^1       il 

^       #1       ^  « 


pi- 


^V/        m^^y        y/WA        y///////// 


m.    iii    »  , 

wm    ■    iS    W^ 
g    m    m.    m^ 

•WHITK. 

Peoblem  No.  25.— By  N.  Marache. 
"White  to  play,  and  checkmate  in  four  moves. 


WM 


»     WM.     « 


mm 


W//y.  W/M/y. 

^    WM  WB 


WM.    ^^/^3^^,/     IBI 
^^^      ^  w  If  I      i 


m.^^^^/y^A        

s  ^p.       ^^ .^^ 


:#;      Wy 


'm^y 


%  ^^...y/m. ^__» 


128 


FRSrE  S    PROBLEM   TOURNAMENT. 


Problem  No.  26.— By  Jacob  Elson. 
White  to  play,  and  checkmate  in  foui-  moves. 


m    fm. 


m  ,„ilf    im'm. ,,,,, 

X  *i^i^       M^,       WM; 
.  i  #J       ■       ■ 

1    PI    fm    'm§i 

f^'      ^P      ^P 


m       v)0A       ^^       wS 


WHITE. 

Pkoblem  No.  27.— By  Johk  Gardxes. 
"White  to  play,  and  checkmate  in  four  moves. 


WM      WM      'WM      W 

m fM m 


^    p 


1 

mm.     'm 


1 


mmxm 

w       ^.       WM. 


fr^re's  problem  tournament. 


129 


Problem  No.  28.— By  Gbo.  N.  CHmrEY. 
White  to  play,  and  checkmate  in  four  moves. 


Problem  No.  29.— By  Thko.,M.  Brown. 
White  to  play,  and  checkmate  in  five  moves. 


i     ^y     mm 


^^^^-/^^^^^;^%^ y///////y '////////y 


fi» 


130 


TRfeRE's   PROBLEM   TOURNAMENT. 


Problem  No.  30.— Bt  Sajml.  Lotd. 
White  to  play,  and  checkmate  in  fire  moves. 


wm  i 


mi «;a^.« 


m 


i  i  ^     WM 

^^^^         W0/y         Wf^  ^  ^ 


ms> 


wM     M§.     WM  "^  v/m 

Tiifi^         ^^         WM 

M.       wrn^       WM       WM 
Wa       %7m.       WM.       mm 


WHITE. 

Pkoblem  No.  31.— By  Geo.  N.  Ciienet. 
Wliite  to  play,  and  checkmate  in  five  moves. 


■■'''       WM 

i 


M^  ^Mk,^     ^     V///////y.^ 


PBfiRE^S    PROBLEM    TOURNAMENT. 


131 


Pboblem  No.  32.— By  De.  S.  H.  Westcott. 
"White  to  play,  and  checkmate  in  five  moves. 


^^i^ 


WkWW    


Peoblem  No.  33.— Bt  Dr.  S.  II.  Westcott. 
White  to  play,  and  checkmate  in  five  moves. 


■   El   ■   fc 

«  ■  •  ■ 

IM    »    ^    ^ 


132 


FRERE  8  PROBLEM  TOURNAMENT. 


Problem  No.  84— By  Jacob  Elson. 
White  to  play,  and  checkmate  in  five  moves. 


t«i-M^ 


Wy    ^     W//////A 


Iff     FmI     P 


M^.  ^^55^  ^!^^ 


WHITK. 

Problem  No.  35.— By  Dr.  C.  C.  Moore. 
White  to  play,  and  checkmate  in  five  moves. 


M.      ''timi.      ^8      ^M. 

i    III     ■i« 


gfc 


I  ii  ^  S  ^   ^ 

s„iml ■. 


Wa 


iii     ■,,,,,■,, » 

W^/      WB     WM     % 

m ■ m .i 


ISi. 


frSre's  problem  tournament. 


133 


Problem  No.  36.— By  J.  H.  Moeeison. 
White  to  play,  and  checkmate  in  five  moves. 


^ 


I « » s 


^ 


m 


»  I 


m 

Wa       mm 


WHITE. 

Pkoblkm  No.  37.— By  John  Gaednek. 
"White  to  play,  and  checkmate  in  five  moves. 


■.  it  ii  ii 

B^  B   B   » 
..  B_  B,  _  11 Bi 


134 


fr^re's  problem  tournament. 


Peoblem  No.  38. — By  Pattekson. 
"White  to  play,  and  checkmate  in  five  moves. 


^"11 


mm 


mm       WM  M  mm       WM 


^1  1  WM>y,.^wm 


111   B   B   L 
^  fii  ■  « 

I     ^     ^     « 


WHITE. 

Problem  No.  89.— By  P.  J.  D. 
White  to  play,  and  checkmate  in  five  moves. 


m      'mm. 


.^^ « 


M 


i  ^  ^P       Mi       ^P 


^^^«^^«^^ 


SOLUTIONS 


CHESS    PEOBLEMS. 


Problem  No.  1. 


■WHITE. 

1.  B  to  Kt's  6th 

2.  R  to  K's  4th 
8.  Q  mates 

2.  Kt  to  B's  7th 

3.  Q  to  Q  K's  sq  (mate) 

2.  Q  takes  Q  (ch.) 
8.  K  mates 


BLACK. 

1.  B  to  B's  4th 

2.  Any  thing 

1.  Q  takes  Kt 

2.  K  moves 


1.  B  takes  P 

2.  B  covers 


Problem  No.  2. 


WHITE. 

1.  K  to  B's  2nd 

2.  KttoBsSrd 

3.  Q  mates 

2.  K  to  Kt's  3rd 

3.  Q  or  Kt  mates 

2.  Kt  to  Kt's  2nd  (ch.) 
8.  Q  mates 


1.  K  takes  P  (ch.) 

2.  Moves 

1.  K  to  B's  4th 

2.  Moves 

1.  R  to  Q's  4th 

2.  K  moves 


Problem  No.  3. 


WHITE. 

1.  B  to  Q  B's  5th 

2.  P  takes  P 

8.  Q  takes  P  (mate) 


2.  Q  to  K's  7th 

8.  Q  takes  P  (mate) 


8.  QtoE?ft4th(m«t6) 


(A) 


(a) 


BLACK. 

1.  P  takes  Kt  (ABC) 

2.  K  to  Q's  4th 


1.  K  takes  Kt 

2.  K  takes  P  (a) 


2.  P  moves 


136 


SOLUTIONS    OF    PROBLEMS. 
(B) 


2.  Q  to  Q's  7th  (ch.) 

3.  Q  to  Q's  4th  (mate) 


2.  Q  to  K's  7th  (ch.) 

3.  Kt  to  K's  Srd  (mate) 


3.  Q  to  K"s  4th  (mate) 


(C) 
(a) 


1.  K  to  Q's  4th 

2,  K  moves 


1.  P  moves 

2.  K  to  Q's  4th  (best)  (a) 


2.  K  takes  Kt 


Problem  No.  4. 


WHITE. 

1.  B  to  K  Kt's  sq 

2.  R  to  K's  5th  (ch.) 

3.  Kt  to  Q  Kt's  6th  (mate) 

2.  B  takes  Q,  (mate  next  move) 


BLACK. 


1.  Q  to  Q's  5th  or  K  B  Srd  (best) 

2.  Q  takes  R 

K  1.  Q  to  K  B's  7th 


Problem  No.  5. 


WHITE. 

1.  Kt  to  Kt's  3rd  (ch.) 

2.  B  to  E's  6th 

3.  Q  mates 


BLACK, 

1.  P  takes  Kt 

2.  Any  thing 


WHITE. 

1.  E  to  K  E's  6th 

2.  Kt  to  Q's  5th 
8.  Either  E  mates 


Problem  No.  6. 

BLACK. 

1.  E  to  Q  B's  3rd  (best) 

2.  Any  thing 


Problem  No.  V. 


WHITE. 

1,  B  to  K's  7th 

2.  E  takes  K  P  (ch.) 

8,  K  to  B's  8rd  (dis.  mate) 

2.  E  to  K  B's  sq 
8.  B  mates 


8.  Kt  mates 


BLACK. 

1.  P  to  K  B's  5th 

2.  K  takes  E 

1.  Kt  takes  B 

2.  Kt  to  K  Kt's  sq 


If  2.  Kt  to  Q  B's  4th 
Other  variations. 


Problem  No.  8. 


WHITE. 

1.  B  to  Kt's  Srd  (ch.) 

2.  Q  to  Q  Kt's  6th 


BLACK. 

1.  K  moves,  Q's  Srd  (beat) 

2.  E  takes  Q 


SOLUTIONS    OF    PROBLEMS.  137 

8.  Kt  takes  E  (mate) 

2.  Q  takes  P  (ch.) 
3.  Q  takes  Q  (mate) 

2.  QtoQ's4th 
3.  B  takes  P  (mate) 

If,  instead  of  1.  K  moves,  Black  slionld  interpose  Q  or  Kt,  "White  plays  Q 
to  B's  4th  (ch.),  and  mates  next  move. 

Problem  No.  9. 
white.    '  black. 

1.  Q  to  K  B's  2nd  1.  Kt  to  Kt'a  3rd 

2.  Q  to  K  B's  5th  (ch.)  2,  K  moves 

3.  Q  to  Q's  otli  (mate) 

1.  Kt  to  K  B's  6th 

2.  Q  to  Q  B's  5th  2.  Any  thing 

3.  Q  to  K's  7tli  (mate) 

1.  K  to  Q's  3rd 
2.  Q  to  K  B's  Sth  (ch.)  2.  K  to  K's  3rd 

8.  Q  to  K's  7th  (mate) 


Problem  No.  10. 
WHITE.  black. 

1.  B  to  Q  Kt's  7th  1.  R  to  K's  Sth 

2.  Q  to  K  Kfs  4th  (ch.)  2.  Q  takes  Q 

3.  Kt  takes  P  (mate) 
If  2.  R  interposa 


8.  Q  takes  B  (mate) 

2.  Q  takes  Q 

8.  Kt  or  Q  mates 


IfL  Q  to  K  B's  6th  (ch.) 
2.  Q  takes  Q  2.  Any  thing 


Problem  No.  11. 

WHITE.  BLACK. 

1.  Kt  to  K's  6th  1.  K  takes  Kt 

2.  Kt  to  B's  7th  (ch.)  2.  K  moves 
8.  15  to  Q's  6th  (mate) 


Problem  No.  12. 

WHITE.  BLACK. 

1.  Q  to  K  R's  Sth  1  R  takes  Q 

2.  R  takes  B  2.  Any  thing 
8.  B  mates 

1.  B  takes  B 
2.  R  to  Q's  6th  (ch.)  2.  Takes  B 

8.  Q  mates 

1.  P  to  Q  B's  3rd 
2.  Kt  takes  B  2.  Takes  Kt 

a  Qmates 


138 


SOLUTIONS    OF    PROBLEMS. 


Problem  ^q.  13 

WHITE.  ^^' 

I-  Q  to  E's  8th  BLACK. 

8-  Q  to  K's  4th  (mate)  2.  K  takes  E 

J  §  ^  ^  ?'s  8th  (ch.)  J-  E  takes  Q  P 

«.  -K  to  Kt's  5th,  or  Q  tks  B  (mate)  ^  ^°^^ 

2.  Q  to  Q  E's  6th  1-  P  to  Q's  4th 

<^'  Q  or  E  mates  2.  Any  move 

2.  P  to  Q's  4th  (mate)  ^'  ^  ta^es  Q 

Proble:^  ^NTo.  14 

WHITE.  *• 

1.  Kt  to  K's  3rd  BLACK. 

2.  B  to  K  B's  Srd  (ch.)  o*  I  !«  Q  Kt's  6th 

3.  B  takes  B  (mate)  2.  B  interposes 

8-  Q  takes  B  P  (mate)  ^^^-  P  interpose 

2.  RtakesP(ch.)  J-  B  to  Q's  4th 

A  Kt  takes  B  (mate)  2.  K  moves  (dis.  ch*' 

2.  Q  takes  B  ^-  ?  *«  K  B's  2nd 

o.  y  mates  accordingly  ^-  ^^7  thing 

2.  B  to  Q  Kt's  5th  J-  Kt  to  K's  4th 

3.  P  takes  P  (mate)  2.  P  takes  B 

Problem  N^o.  15 

WHITE.  ^*^- 

1.  Q  to  K  R's  7th  BLACK. 

2 •  Q  to  Q  B's  2nd  (ch.)  l  g  to  B's  5th 

8.  Q  to  B's  6th  (mate)  2.  K  to  Q's  4th 

2.  Q  to  K  B's  5th  (ch.)  i"  P  ^ovea 

8.  Q  or  B  mates  2.  K  moves 

2.  Q  to  K  B's  7th  J- K  to  Q's  3rd 

^-  -tJ  to  R's  Srd  (mate)  ^-  P  moves 

2.  K  to  B's  6th      -  l-KtoK'sSrd 

<i'  f  to  Q's  5th  (mate)  2-  P  o^  K  moves 

WHITE.                      ^""^^^^^  ^<>-   16. 

1.  Kt  to  K  B's  6th  BLACK. 

2.  Q  to  Q-8  4th  (ch.)  1-  Q's  P  1 

8.  Kt  to  B'fl  8rd  (mate)  2-  ^  takes  Q 

1-  K  takes  Kt 


SOLUTIONS  OF  PROBLEMS.  139 

2.  B's  P  2  2.  Any  thing 

3.  Q  mates 

1.  K  to  B's  5th 
2.  Q  takes  P  (ch.)  2,  K  moves 

8.  Kt  to  E's  7th  (mate) 


2.  Q  to  B's  5th  (mate) 


1.  K  to  Q's  3rd 


Problem  No.  17. 

WHITE.  BLAOK. 

1.  R  to  K  R's  2nd  1.  B  takes  P  (A) 

8.  Q  to  Q  E's  8th  2.  Any  thing 


8.  Q  mates 

2.  Q  to  Kt' 

3,  Q  to  K's  3rd  (mate) 


(A)         1.  B  anywhere  else 
2.  Q  to  Kt's  sq  (ch.)  2.  B  covers 

■   ~rd  ' 


Problem  No.  18. 

WHITE.  BLACK. 

1.  B  to  Q  Kt's  7th  1.  Any  thing 

2.  Q  to  Q's  5th  (ch.)  2.  Kt  takes  Q 
8.  B  to  B's  8th  (mate) 

Problem  No.  19. 
WHITE.  blaok. 

1.  E  to  K  B's  4th  1.  K  to  K's  7th 

2.  Q  to  Q  Kt's  sq  2.  P  moves 
8.  Q  to  K  B's  sq  (mate) 

1.  K  to  Q  B's  7th 
2.  Q  to  Q  Kt's  2nd  (ch.)  2.  K  to  Q's  8th  (A) 

8.  E  mates 

8.  Kt  to  K's  5th  (mate) 


(A)         If  2,  K  to  Q's  6th 


Problem  No.  20. 
white.  blaok. 

1.  Q  to  Q's  4th  (ch.)  1.  K  takes  Q 

'  E  to  K's  4th  (ch.)  2.  K  to  Q  B'a  4th 


8.  E  takes  E  (mate) 

2.  E  to  Q  B's  sq  (ch. 
8.  E  takes  E  (mate) 


1.  E  takes  Q 
2.  E  to  Q  B's  sq  (ch.)  2.  E  interposes 


Problem  No.  21. 


WHITE. 

BLAOK. 

1.  Kt  to  Q's  7th  (ch.) 

2.  Kt  to  K  B's  3rd  (double  ch.) 
8.  Kt  to  K  Kt's  5th  (mate) 

2.  KttoQB's5th(ch.) 
R  Kt  to  K  B's  8rd  (mate) 

1.  E  takes  Kt 

2.  Moves 

1.  K  moves 

2.  K  moves 

140 


SOLUTIONS    OF    PHOBLEMS. 


WHITE. 

1.  Q  to  Q  B's  5th  (ch.) 

2.  B  to  K's  4th 
8.  P  to  Kt's  4th  (mate),  or  Kt  t6 

Q's  3rd  (checkmate) 


Problem  No.  22. 

BLACK. 
1.  K  takes  Q 


2.  Any  thing 


Problem  No.  23. 


WHITE. 

1.  B  to  K  B's  6th 

■2.  Kt  to  Q-ft  7th  (dis.  ch.) 

8.  B  takes  P  (ch.) 

4.  P  takes  E,  being  Kt  (mate) 

3.  Kt  to  Q  B's  5th  (ch.) 

4.  B  takes  P  (mate) 

2.  Kt  to  Q's  3rd  (ch.) 

3.  B  to  Q  B's  2nd  (ch.) 

4.  Kt  to  Q  Kt'3  3rd  (mate) 

3.  Kt  to  Q  B's  2nd  (d'ble  ch.) 
4  Kt  to  Q  Pw's  3rd  (mate) 

3.  Kt  to  Q  Kt's  5tli  (dis.  ch.) 

4,  Kt  to  Q  Pv's  3rd  (mate) 

8.  Kt  to  K's  6th  (dis.  ch.) 
4.  Kt  to  Q  B's  5th  (mate) 

2.  Kt  takes  P  at  Q  B's  4th 

3.  Kt  to  K's  5th  (ch.) 

4.  B  takes  P  (mate) 

8.  Kt  takes  Kt  (double  ch.) 
4.  Kt  to  K's  5th  (mate) 

8.  Kt  to  K's  6th  (dis.  ch.) 
4.  Kt  to  Q  B's  5ih  (mate) 


(a) 
(A) 

(a) 
(b) 
(c) 
(B) 

(a) 
(b) 
(c) 


3.  Kt  to  Q  Kt's  5th  (<1bl.  ch.) 

4.  Kt  to  K's  5,  or  Q  Kt's  2  (mate) 

(C) 

2.  Kt  takes  R 

8.  Kt  takes  P  (double  ch.) 
4,  Kt  to  Q  K's  3rd  (mate) 

3.  Kt  takes  P  (dis.  ch.) 

4.  Kt  to  K's  5.  or  Q  Kt  2  (mate) 

(D) 

2.  Kt  to  Q  Kt's  5th  (ch.) 

3.  Kt  takes  P  at  Q  B  4th  (dis.  ch.) 

4.  Kt  to  Q  Kt's  2nd  (mate) 

(a) 
8.  Kt  to  Q's  3rd  (double  ch.) 
4  Kt  to  Q  K's  3rd  (mate) 

(E) 


BLACK. 
K  takes  Kt  (A  B  0  D  E) 
K  to  Q's  4tli  (a) 
K  to  K's  8rd 

K  to  K's  5th 
K  to  Q's  4th 

K  to  Q  Kfs  7th 

K  to  Q  Kfs  Sth  (a  b  c) 

K  to  Q  Pw's  Sth 


K  to  Q  B's  Sth 
K  to  Q  Kt's  Sth 

P  takes  Kt 

K  to  Q  Kt's  Sth 

K  to  Q  B's  6th 
K  takes  Kt 

Kt  to  K  Kt's  6th 
K  to  Q's  6tli  (a  b  c) 
K  to  K's  5th 

Kt  to  K's  7th  (ch.) 
K  to  Q"s  6th 

B  takes  Kt 
K  to  Q's  6th 

Any  thing  else 
K  to  Q's  6th 

R  to  Q  Kt's  6th 
K  to  Q  Kt's  2nd  (a) 
K  to  Q  Kt's  Sth 

Any  thing  else 
K  to  Q's  6th 

R  takes  R,  or  to  Q  Kt's  4tb 
P  takes  R  (a) 
K  to  Q's  6th 

K  to  Q  Kt's  7th 
K  to  Q  Kt's  Sth 


L  B  to  Q  Kt's  6th 


SOLUTIONS    OF    PROBLEMS.  141- 

2.  Kt  to  K's  2na  (ch.)  2.  P  takes  Kt  (  a  ) 
8.  Kt  to  Q's  7th  (dis,  ch.)  8.  K  to  Q'a  6th 

4.  Kt  to  Q  B's  5th  (mate) 

(a)         2.  K  to  Q  Kt'9  7th 

3.  Kt  takes  P  (double  ch.)  8.  K  to  Q  E's  Sth 
4  Kt  to  Q  K's  3rd  (mate) 

If  Black  move  otherwise,  mate  takes  place  as  in  some  of  the  variational 

Problem  No.  24. 

"WHITE.  BLACK. 

1.  Q  takes  P,  &g. 

Problem  No.  25. 

WHITE.  BLACK. 

1.  B  to  Q  E's  7th  (ch.)  1.  K  takes  P  (best),  (or  A  B) 

2.  Q  takes  Kt  2.  E  takes  Q  (best)  (or  C) 
8.  Kt  to  K's  4th  3.  E  to  Q's  7th  (ch.) 

4.  Kt  takes  E  (mate) 

If  3.  E  takes  Kt,  White  takes  other  E  with  B  (mate). 

(A)  1.  E  interposes 
2.  Q  to  Q's  2nd  (ch.)  2.  K  takes  P 

8.  Q  mates 

(B)  1.  Kt  interposes 
2.  Q  to  Q's  2nd,  or  K  to  B's  4th, 

and  mates  next  move 

(C)  2.  E  to  K's  7th  (ch.) 
8.  Q  takes  E  (mate) 

Problem  No.  26. 
WHITE.  black. 

1.  Kt  to  K  B's  5th  (ch.)  1.  Either  Kt  or  P  takes  Kt  (A) 

2.  Q  to  Q  Kt's  Xth.  2.  E  moves  (best) 

3.  Q  to  Q's  5th  (ch.)  8.  K  takes  Kt 

4.  Q  to  Q's  2nd  (mate) 

(A)         1.  K  takes  Kt 
2.  Q  to  Q  Kt's  7th  2.  Any  thing 


Problem  No.  27. 

WHITE.  BLACK. 

1.  B  to  Q  E's  7th  1.  K  moves 

2.  K  to  K's  7th  2.  K  moves 
8.  B  to  Q  Kt's  Sth  3.  K  moves 
4.  B  to  Q  B's  5th  (mate) 

Problem  No.  28. 

WHITE.  BLACK. 

1.  P  to  K  E's  4th  1.  P  to  K  E's  4th  (A) 

2.  K  to  Q  B's  3rd  2.  P  to  Q's  Sth  (ch.)  (a) 
8.  K  to  Q  Kt's  3rd                                     8.  P  to  K's  6th 

4  Q  takes  Kt  (mate) 


142 


SOLUTIONS    OF    PROBLEMS. 


8.  B  to  B'8  6th  (ch.) 
4.  Q  mates 

2.  PtoR's5th 

3.  Kt's  P  moves 

4.  Q  takes  Kt  (mate) 


"WHITE. 

1.  Q  to  B's  5th  (ch.) 

2.  R  takes  B 

3.  Kt  to  K  B's  4th 

4.  P  to  Kt's  3rd  (ch.) 

5.  P  takes  Q  (mate) 


(a) 


(A) 


2.  K  takes  Kt 

3.  K  to  K's  3rd 

1.  P  to  K  R's  3rd 

2.  P  to  Q's  5ih 

3.  P  to  K's  6th 


Problem  No.  29. 


BLAOK- 


1.  P  takes  Q 

2.  Q  takes  R 

3.  Q  to  Q's  8  th  (ch.) 

4.  Q  takes  P  (ch.) 


Problem  No.  30. 


WHITE. 

1.  Kt  to  K  B's  6th  (ch.) 

2.  K  takes  P  (dis.  ch.) 

3.  Q  to  R's  5th  (ch.) 

4.  K  to  B's  5th 

5.  Kt  or  P  mates 

4.  Q  to  B's  7th  (ch.) 

5.  Q  to  B's  8th  (mate) 

3.  Kt  to  K's  3id  (ch.) 

4.  Q  to  Kt's  2iul  (ch.) 

5.  Q  to  Kfs  4th  (mate) 

3.  K  to  B"s  5th 

4.  Kt  to  B-s  4th  (ch.) 

5.  Q  to  R's  sq  (mate) 

2.  QtoK'8  4th  (ch.) 

3.  Q  takes  R  (ch.) 

4.  Q  to  Kt's  Sth  (ch.) 

5.  Q  to  K's  8th  (mate) 


BLACK. 


1.  B  takes  Kt  (ch.)  (A) 

2.  K  to  Kfs  3rd  (B) 

3.  K  takes  Q  (C) 

4.  Any  thing 

(C)         3.  K  to  Kt's  2nd 
4.  K  to  R's  sq 


(B) 


(b) 


(A) 


2.  K  to  Kt's  Sth  (or  b) 

3.  K  takes  P  (best) 

4.  K  moves 

2.  B  to  Kt's  4th 

3.  B  to  Q's  Sth  (best) 

4.  B  takes  Kt 

1.  K  to  Kt's  3rd 

2.  K  moves 

3.  K  to  B's  sq 

4.  K  to  K's  2nd 


* 


Problem  No.  31. 


WHITE. 

1.  Q  to  K  R's  Sth 

2.  Kt  to  K's  4th  (ch.) 
8.  Q  to  Q  B's  3rd 

4.  Q  to  Q's  2nd  (ch.) 

5.  Kt  to  Q  B"s  3rd  (mate) 

3.  Kt  to  Q  B's  Sth  (ch.) 

4.  Q  to  Q  B's  8rd  (ch.) 

5.  Q  mates 

2.  Q  to  Q  R's  Sth 
8.  Kt  to  K's  4th 

4.  K  takes  P 

5.  Q  mates 


BLACK. 


1.  K  to  Q's  7th  (A  B) 

2.  K  to  Q's  Sth  (a) 

3.  P  to  K's  Sth  (becomes  Kt) 

4.  P  takes  Q 

(a)         2.  K  to  Q's  6th 

3.  K  to  Q's  7th 

4.  K  to  Q's  Sth 

(A)         1.  P  to  K  B's  7th 
2.  P  Queens  (a) 
8.  P  checks 
4  Any  thing 


SOLUTIONS    OF    PROBLEMS. 


143 


S.  Q  to  K  Kfs  2nd 

4,  K  to  Q  B"s  sq 

5.  Q  takes  P  (mate) 

2.  Q  to  K  R"s  2nd  (ch.) 

3.  Q  to  K's  Sth  ((di.) 

4.  Q  to  Q  Kt's  Sth 

5.  Q  or  Kt  mates 


(a) 


(B) 


2.  P  Knights 

3.  Kt  to  K  Kt's  6th 

4.  Kt  moves 

1.  K  to  K  B's  7th 

2.  K  to  K's  Sth 

3.  K  to  Q's  7\h 

4.  Any  thing 


Problem  No.  32. 


WHITE. 

1.  Kt  to  Q's  7th  (ch.) 

2.  B  to  R\s  7th  (ch.) 
8.  Q  to  K'8  5th  (ch.) 

4.  B  to  Kfs  Sth  (ch.) 

5.  P  mates 


BLACK. 

1.  B  takes  Kt 

2.  K  takes  Kt 
8.  K  takes  Q 
4.  K  to  B's  3rd 


Problem  No.  33. 


WHITE, 

1.  Q  to  K  B's  4th  (ch.) 

2.  B  to  B's  7tl)  (ch.) 

3.  B  to  Kt's  6th 

4.  B  to  K's  ?rd  (ch.) 

5.  P  takes  Kt  (mate) 

4.  B  to  Q's  Sth 

5.  B  mates 


(A) 


BLACK. 

1.  K  takes  Q 

2.  P  interposes 

3.  Q  to  K's  Sth  (A) 

4.  Q  takes  B 

8.  Kt  to  B's  Sth 
4.  Any  thing 


Problem  No.  34. 


WHITE. 

1.  E  to  R's  4th  (ch.) 

2.  R  to  K's  6th 
8.  B  takes  Kt 

4.  Kt  to  K's  2nd  (ch.) 
6.  P  to  K  B's  4th  (mate) 


BLACK. 

1.  Kt  takes  R 

2.  Kt  to  K  Kt's  7th  (best) 
8.  B  takes  R 

4.  K  moves 


Problem  No.  35. 


WHITE. 

1.  Q  takes  B  P 

2.  R  takes  B 
8.  R  takes  R 

4.  R  to  K  Kt's  sq 

5.  Q  mates 

4.  Q  takes  P  (ch.) 

5.  R  or  Kt  mates 

8,  Q  takes  R 

4.  Q  takes  P 

5.  Q  to  B's  6th  (mate) 

4.  E  takes  P  (ch.) 

9.  Mate 


BLACK. 

1.  B  to  K  B's  5th 

2.  R  to  B's  3rd 

3.  K  takes  R 

4.  K  moves 

ITS.  K  toKt'ssq 
4-  K  moves 

2.  R  to  K's  2nd 
8.  K  to  R's  3rd 
4.  K  moves 

If  3.  K  to  R's  2nd 
4.  Moves 


144 


SOLUTIONS    OF    PROBLEMS. 


1.  R  to  B's  Srd 

2.  B  to  B  s  8th  (ch.) 

2.  Any  thing 

3.  K  takes  R 

3.  Any  tiling 

4.  Q  takes  P 

4.  Any  thing 

5.  Mate 

1.  R  to  K's  2nd 

2.  Q  takes  E 

2.  B  to  B's  5th 

8.  K  to  Kt's  sq  (ch.) 

8.  B  to  Kfs  4th 

4.  Q  takes  B  (ch.) 

4  K  moves 

6.  Q  mates 

3.  K  to  R's  Srd  or  E's  sc 

4.  Q  takes  P 

4  B  moves 

5.  Q  mates 

2.  B  to  Kt's  6th 

8.  E  takes  B  (ch.) 

3.  K  moves 

4  Q  checks 

4.  Moves 

6.  Mate 

Problem  No.  36. 

"WHITE. 

BLACK. 

1.  KtatKt'8  5thtoQ'8  4th 

1.  Q  to  K's  5th  (best) 

2.  Kt  to  Kt's  4th 

2.  B  to  Q  B's  5th  (best) 

8.  Kt  to  Kt's  3rd  (ch.) 

8.  B  takes  Kt 

4.  Kt  to  Q  R's  6th  (ch.) 

4  K  moves 

5.  B  to  Q  Kt's  5  (mate) 

Problem  No.  Si. 

WHITE. 

BLACK. 

1.  B  to  K  R's  5th 

1.  K  moves 

2.  Kt  to  Q  B's  3rd    ^ 

2.  K  moves 

3.  P  to  R's  3rd 

8.  K  moves 

4  B  to  Kt's  4th 

4  Anything. 

6.  Kt  mates 

Problem 

No.  38. 

WHITE. 

BLACK. 

1.  E  to  Q  B'8  8th 

1.  P  to  K's  8rd 

2.  R  to  Q  B's  6th 

2.  P  takes  R 

8.  B  to  Q's  6th 

8.  P  to  Q  B's  4th 

4.  B  to  K  B's  Sth 

4  K  takes  Kt 

5.  B  to  KKt's  7th  (mate) 


Problem  No.  39. 


WHITE. 

1.  Kt  takes  P 

2.  Kt  takes  P 

8.  B  to  Q  Kt's  6th  (ch.) 
4.  Kt  takes  P 
6.  Kt  mates 


BLACK. 

1.  Kt  to  Q's  Srd  or  K's  4th 

2.  Kt  to  Q  B's  5th 
8.  Kt  takes  B 

4.  Kt  moves 


THX  END. 


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GAME  EIGHTEENTH. 
AndMrtcerOh  in  the  series  hetween  Lalmcrdm^iavs  and 
•'  McDonnell. 


WHITE.  jrDonnell 

1  P.  to  K.  fourth 

2  P.  to  K.  B.  fourth 
3.  K.  Kt.  to  B.  third 
4  P.  to  Q.  B.  third 

5.  P.  to  K.  fifth 

6.  Q.  Kt.  to  R.  third 
7  Q.  Kt.  to  B.  second 
8.  P.  to  Q.  fourth 
9  Q  Kt.  to  K.  third  (") 


(SiciuAN  Opening.) 

BLACK.  LahorirdonnaiS. 


1.  P.  to  Q.  B.  fourth 

2.  P.  to  K.  third 

3  Q.  Kt.  to  B.  third 

4.  P.  to  Q.  fourth 

5.  P.  toK.  B.  third 


W.  Q.  B.  P.  takes  P 
11   K.  toB.  second 

12.  K  to  Kt.  third 

13.  B.  P.  takes  P. 

14.  K.  to  R.  third 

15.  P.  to  K.  Kt.  fourth 

16.  B.toK.  Kt.  second 
17  P.  to  K.  Kt.  fifth 

18.  Kt.  takes  Kt. 

19.  Q.  B.toK.  third 
,  20.  B.  takes  B. 
'  21.  K.B.  to  Kt.  fourth 

22.  Q.  takes  Kt. 
w  Q.  R.  to  K.Kt.  square 
24'  Q  B.  to  B.  square 
25  K.  to  R.  fourtTi 


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6.  K.  Kt.  to  R.  third 

7.  Q.  to  Q.  Kt.  third 

8.  Q.  B.  to  Q.  second 

9.  Q.  B.  P.  takes  P. 
10  K.  B.  to  Kt.  Iifth  (oh) 
ll!  Castles  (K.  R.) 

12.  P.  takes  P. 

13.  Q.  B.toK.  square 

14.  Q.  B.  to  R.  fourth 
15  Q.  B.  to  Kt.  third 

16.  B.  to  K.  fifth 

17.  K.  Kl.  to  B.  fourth 

18.  R.  takes  Kt. 

19.  B.  takes  Kt 

20.  Kt.  takes  K.  P. 

21.  Kt.  takes  B. 
22  Q.  R-  to  K.  B.  square 

23.  K.B.  toQ.  third 

24.  R.  to  B.  sixth  (ch) 

25.  R.  to  K.  B.  fifth 
And  Labourdonnais  wins.  (6) 

,„)  Premature;  surely  9.  kTo  K.  second  or  Q.  third. ould 
nave  been  better  pl^y-  ^  ^        grst  to  last  by  Labour- 


KOLISCH    AND    AN    AMATEUR, 

The  follo-wiug  ingenious  and  remarkable  game  has  been  placed  \t  our  disposal  by  oii 

distinguished-Hungarian  fiiend,  Hebb  K01.I8CH.     It  exhll  Us  in  a   pre-eminent  degree  th 

varied  i^somces  of  this   very  fine  player.     Bis   antagonist  oi^  '^ig  occasion  was  a  higbl 

talented  amateur  of  the  Cafe  de  la  Regence.— iSra. 

(Remove  White's  Q  R,'*, 

WHITE.  "' 

iVr.  K. 

1  P  to  K  4 

2  P  to  K  B  4 

3  Kt  to  K  B  3 

4  P  to  Q  4 

5  B  to  Q  B  4 

6  Castles 

7  Kt  to  QB3 

8  P  to  K  5  (a) 

9  P  tks  P  (en  /w*) 

10  Q  Kt  to  K  4 

11  B  tks  F 

12  K  Kt  to  Kt  5  (b) 


BI.ACE. 

■whit.-:. 

BLACK. 

Aviaietir. 

Mr.   K. 

A  matenr. 

PtoK4 

13  B  tkf-  B 

QtksB 

B  to  Q  B  4 

14  B  tks  Kt 

PtksB 

PtksP 

16  Q  to  S  5 

P  to  K  R  3 

B  to  Kt  3 

16  Kt  to  B  6  (ch)  (c) 

K  to  R  sq 

Kt  to  K  2 

17  Kt  tUs  Q  P 

QtoQ2 

Castles 

18  Kt  tks  P  ^ch) 

R  tks  Kt 

P  to  Q  B  3 
P  toQ4 

19  K  tkg  B 

Q  to  K  Kt  .% 

20  Kt  to  B  6  ^d) 

Q  tks  Q  P  (^ch) 

.ft  tks  P 

21  K  to  B  »q 

Kt  to  Q  2 

Q  to  Q  gq 

22  Q  Iks  R  P  (Ch)  ie) 

P  tksQ 

BtoB2 

23  R  to  R  7  mate. 

Kt  to  Q  4 

(a\  In  order  to  take  Black's  Q's  Pawn  in  paaeisg,  should  it  be  advanced. 
(b)  We  invite  the  attention  of  our  readers  to  this  strikingly  brilliant  combination 
ne  which  secures  the  victory,  however  Black  may  play. 
((•)  Followed  up  In  the  ugual  style  of  the  Hungarian  master. 
{d}  All  this  is  very  Ingenious. 
\f)  A  splenuld  termination. 


By  :»rr.  F.  HEALEY. 
BLACK. 


Ill    'wm.    1 


WHITE. 
Wliite  to  play,  and  mate  in  five  moves. 

Of  this  beautiful  and  difficult  stratagem  we  shall  withhold  the  solution  for 
a  fortnight. 


A  capital  little  Game,  the  terminating  one  in  a  match  between  Messrs.  KOLISCH 

and  SCHROEDER,  wherein  Mr.  Kolisch  gave  the  odds  of  his  Q  Kt. 

{Remove  }Vhite's  Q  Kt  from  the  Board.) 

(K  Kt  Game.) 

BLACK.  (Mr.  S.)    I     WHITE  (Mr.  K.)    BLACK  (Mr.  S.) 


I      WHITE  (Mr.  K.) 

1.  P  to  K  4th  P  to  K  4th 

2.  Kt  to  K  B  3rd       Kt  to  Q  B  3rd 
I    3.  B  to  Q  B  4th         B  to  K  2nd 
I    4.  P  to  Q  4th  P  to  Q  3rd 

6.  P  to  Q  B  3rd  Kt  to  K  B  3rd 
j     6.  P  to  Q  5th  Kt  to  Q  E,  4th 

7.  B  to  Q  3rd  P  to  Q  Kt  3rd 
1    8.  P  to  K  R  3rd        P  to  Q  B  4th 

9.  B  to  K  3rd  Castles 

10.  P  to  K  Kt  4th 
(Determined  to  break  ground  at  all  hazards.^ 

10.  P  to  K  R  3rd 

11.  P  to  K  Kt  5th       P  takes  P 

12.  Kt  takes  K  Kt  P  Kt  to  K  R  2nd 

13.  Kt  takes  Kt  K  takes  Kt 

14.  Q  to  K  R  5th  (ch)  K  to  Kt  sq 


15.  R  to  K  Kt  sq 

16.  P  to  K  B  4th 

17.  B  to  Q  B  2nd 

18.  P  to  K  B  5th 

19.  Castles. 


(Obf crve,  now,  how  effectively  every  piece 
of  'Wliite  is  disposed,  and  the  utter  hdpless- 
flcss  of  the  forces  on  the  adverse  side.) 

19.  K  to  K  2nd 

20.  R  takes  K  Kt  P 
(A  masterly  stroke  of  play.) 

20.  B  takes  R 

21.  B  to  K  Kt  5th  (ch)  P  to  K  B  3rd 
(If  he  had  played  B  te  K  B  3rd,  then  fol- 
lowed 22.  B  takes  B  (ch),  and,  as  Black  dares 
not  take  the  Bishop  because  of  the  threatened 
mate,  he  must  have  given  up  his  Queen.) 

22.  Q  to  K  R  7th         R  to  K  Kt  sq 

23.  B  to  K  R  6th        Q  to  K  B  sq 
(If  23.  K  to  B  sq,  the  game  would  have 

proceeded  thus  :— 
24.  B,  to  K  Kt  sq  Q  to  K  2nd 

B  to  K  B  3rd  2.%  B  takes  B  (ch)         R  takes  B 

P  to  Q  B  5th  26.  Q  to  K  R  8th  (ch),  and  wins.) 

K  R  to  K  sq  24.  R  to  K  Kt  sq        Q  to  K  B  2nd 

K  to  B  sq  25.  B  takes  B  B  takes  K  B  P 

26.  B  takes  K  B  P  (ch) 
*  nd  Black  surrenders. 


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